Hanno Böck wrote: > Am Mittwoch 27 Mai 2009 schrieb Nikola Smolenski: >> I was thinking about this issue and I believe I have "the best of both >> worlds" solution, if someone is willing to code it. Take an IP address, >> concatenate it with a long string (salt), take its MD5 and use that as >> the anons' username. Two different IPs will have two different anon >> usernames, but for the readers it will not be possible to find out what >> is the original IP from the username. > > This method only works if the salt is kept secret and changed regularly. I > don't know how this could be implemented in a php app. If the salt is kept, > the anonymity is not guaranteed - the range of IPs allows just calculating > all of them with a given salt.
The salt must be unknown to users, of course. Site administrators may know it, but it is irrelevant since they can gather the same information from logs anyway. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
