Re: File transfers

1 apr 2007 kl. 12.55 skrev Martyn Russell:

Hi,

> Dimitur Kirov wrote:
>
> Hi Dimitur, thanks for the work on this! and sorry for the late reply.

Indeed, very nice!

>> Currently file transfer session ids are generated with a simple
>> incremental rule GOSSIPSID1,GOSSIPSID2 .. etc. This is not good from
>> security point of view, because every internet user will be able to
>> steal a file if he knows that certain user runs gossip.
>
> OK. Actually Micke, isn't this something you changed in Loudmouth? So
> the message IDs are now a generated number?

Loudmouth currently generates entirely random numbers, too random in  
fact as it makes tracking the numbers hard :)

There is an issue open about adding an incremented value to the ID  
string in order to make it easier to follow:

http://developer.imendio.com/issues/browse/LM-75

Best Regards,
   Mikael Hallendal

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