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The search space of email is small enough that hashing is not a good solution. http://www.developer.it/post/gravatars-why-publishing-your-email-s-hash-is-not-a
by ryan-c 12y ago
The search space of email is small enough that hashing is not a good solution.
http://www.developer.it/post/gravatars-why-publishing-your-email-s-hash-is-not-a-good-idea http://www.developer.it/post/gravatars-why-publishing-your-e...
http://archive.hack.lu/2013/dbongard_hacklu_2013.pdf http://archive.hack.lu/2013/dbongard_hacklu_2013.pdf
- richardwhiuk 12y agoThey can add a random seed to the hash to increase the search space. In fact it doesn't need to be a hash - they could just store a random string.