What is the advantage of using message digest over uuid? Isn't message
digest not guaranteed to be unique where as UUID is always unique?
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Martin Makundi <
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> You could also just use a md5 hashkey with content specific to the account:
>
> MessageDigest messageDigest = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
> return new String(messageDigest.digest((encryptionKey +
> value).getBytes()));
>
> **
> Martin
>
> 2008/5/16 Ryan Gravener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > You may also want to have a enum/int to represent what kind of token it
> is.
> > New user, new email, forgot password, etc..
> >
> > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:01 PM, James Carman <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> java.util.UUID.randomUUID().toString()
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Matthew Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >> > I need to implement the usual account activation via email function.
> Can
> >> > anyone point me to some example of how this is implemented? If in
> Wicket
> >> > even better but anything would help me a lot.
> >> >
> >> > One question I have is how to generate hard to guess unique keys in
> the
> >> > email link? I use Hibernate & MySql, does this give me some easy way
> to
> >> > generate these keys? Use Jakarta common-id to generate uuid?
> >> >
> >> > I plan to have an activation field in the user table to store the
> >> activation
> >> > key, once the user respond to the activation email link, clear the
> field
> >> to
> >> > indicate the account is activated. Is this how it's done?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for any help!
> >> >
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