Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
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- Mar 18, 2010, 18:47 UTC
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Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> writes:
> So, forget the original generality and let's > define the uuid as a SHA-1 of some EASILY > REMEMBERED, already reasonably unique piece of > information such as an old (name,email) pair.
What's the added value of the "SHA-1" thing, here? A hash of a pair (a, b) is exactly as unique as the pair itself (well, actually even a bit less if you consider collisions).
-- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/