On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:52:19 -0700, James Stroud wrote: > Also, I should note that the sha function will, to the limits of anyone's > ability to analyze it, decouple the information from the hash. So, to be > careful, you should keep the algorithm to generate the IDs secret.
Security by obscurity is very little security at all. If there is any motive at all to reverse-engineer the algorithm, people will reverse engineer the algorithm. Keeping a weak algorithm secret does not make it strong. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
