* Reindl Harald:

> mtime -> well, is directly in the header -> Last-Modified
> size -> well, directly in the header -> Content-Length
> inode -> well, where is there any security implication?

I guess you could use it to form an NFS handle, and use that to bypass
intended access restrictions.  But that's the fault of NFS, and systems
which do not use cryptographic NFS handles probably use non-random or
32-bit inodes, which are open to guessing anyway.

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