so 10. 2. 2018 v 13:23 odesílatel Guilherme Gonçalves <
[email protected]> napsal:

> Hi Martin,
>
> I'm not authoritative on PII policies at all, but here's a couple of
> things that came to mind as I read your question.
>
> 2018-02-10 11:26 GMT+00:00 Martin Urbanec <[email protected]>:
>
>> To prevent this tool from spamming I of course require its confirmation
>> by accessing an URL with a random string (MD5 hash of user's email *and* 
>> random
>> number from 1 to 100; I mean, those two things are in one hash).
>>
>
> Does this mean the URL for a given email address can be guessed in at most
> 100 attempts by someone who doesn't control the address? I think you'd
> typically want to draw your random numbers from a much larger range, or use
> as token something that was encrypted or signed with a secret only your
> server knows. It would probably also make sense to make your URLs valid for
> only a certain time.
>

*1000, but increased to 10 000 000, which should be big enough. I also can
use more qualit hash than MD5 which will slow it down even more.

>
> However...
>
>
>> Should I stop with collecting mails at all and use some WMF-maintained
>> service for mass-emailing (mailman at lists.wikimedia.org maybe?) and
>> make the tool to just send an email to the list itself?
>>
>
> If creating a single mailing list is an option (for instance, you don't
> plan on customizing the emails per user), this seems like a very good way
> to go.
>

It is, this just was the easiest way for me when I was writing the tool.

>
>
>>
>> This question came to my mind before creating, so I do appologize for
>> asking after programming.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Martin Urbanec
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