On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 10:53:02AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> Which may be an extremely long username...  Now I'm thinking
> it's safe for UUID_1 and UUID_2 to be the same, to save storage
> space on the server and to save users from dealing with
> excessively long, compression-unfriendly field entries. So,
> this:
>       username: $UUID@$NEWSGROUP.$SLICE
>       password: $UUID

1. I'd even say that we don't need all the entropy of uuid here and it's
   probably sufficient to grab 8-12 bytes from /dev/random and z-base-32
   encode them (z-base-32 to produce case-insensitive strings)
2. You can make password be "p" :)

-K

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