Package naming advice requested
[email protected] Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:38:09 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.djb.package |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hello, This is pushing the OT boundary, but Dan exhorted us to make an effort at naming our packages well, so... I'm building a package which implements a "zero-overhead whitelist" by extracting cookies from sender addresses, similarly to qdated. The cookie will be made by hashing the sender address and a local secret, possibly using surf; if the sender's address hashes to match the cookie, then the email is accepted. The intent of this package is to provide working email addresses for use in vendor accounts, or accounts at PayPal, which can't be used by third parties even if they are leaked to spammers. This also allows users of CR or other whitelisting systems to leave high-profile senders like PayPal out of their whitelists, reducing false negatives. Such an address would be usable if the spammer claims to be the sender allowed by the cookie, but that information is not part of the cookie, so this can be regarded as a low-probability event. I've considered the name qsender, but that appears to be used for something else. It seems to me that qcookie is too vague, and qfromok doesn't have a ring to it. Any suggestions? Thanks! Len.