Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: [PATCH] hide some sensitive information

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Miguel Rodríguez Pérez wrote:

> Ramiro Estrugo wrote:
>
> > 2) Why 6 characters ?  Why not dup the whole uri, and then replace each
> > of the password characters with the obfuscating char ?  That way you
> > preserve the uri length, and probably make the operation a little
> > cleaner.
> I don't want to preserve the uri length. This way if the user changes 
> his/her password the thumbnails in disk are still valid and don't have 
> to be regenerated (and downloaded).
> Why 6? Well, it was just a beautiful integer number...


It is good to not preserve the URI length.  It is one more layer of 
obsfucation over the password.

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