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RE: [TCLUG:11589] God help us all, it's emacs humor





> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Sherohman [mailto:esper@usinternet.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 3:41 PM
> To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:11589] God help us all, it's emacs humor
>
>
> Eric M. Hopper said:
> > 	You need to compute some sort of message checksum to stick in
> > here.  :-) Having it always be 12 makes it too obviously a signature
> > block.  :-)
>
> Or just have rotating/randomized sig blocks with different
> numbers in each.
> Unless you send two or more identical messages, who's to say
> whether it's a
> random number or a cryptographically secure (and thus highly
> unpredictable)
> hash?

Actually, I'd probably just do something really simple like use the
"seconds" portion of the current time.  But I won't, since I actually have
to use Outlook at work (where I do most of my posting from), and I don't
really have any tools to randomly generate sigs on this thing.  I suppose I
could just bang two random keys, for that matter.

This seems like a long haul for a short laugh.  But that's never stopped me
before...