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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