At Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:22:39 +0200, Thomas Perl wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 06:09:32AM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi. So, no automatically generated device id as the documentation > > says? How can I then be sure that the device id I give (e.g. N9) is > > then unique? > > Add some hash + application name (if it's not the original gPodder > client) + device name, e.g. for a N9 running your Podcasts app: > > podcasts-n9-a6b78d9c > ^ App name > ^ Device name > ^ (possibly cropped) Hash (e.g. hash of IMEI+current time) > > Please make sure that you hash or otherwise obfuscate any identifying > information like the IMEI (ideally with some random data, because > otherwise people could maybe derive (parts of) the IMEI from the ID. > > The device ID is not really visible to the user (apart from the URL in > the normal website interface), and there's a special field for the > user-visible string.
Why risk exposing any bits of the IMEI? Why not just use /dev/urandom? Neal _______________________________________________ gpodder-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/gpodder-devel
