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[PATCH] Make `message-unique-id' less prone to collisions

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Matt Armstrong <matt <at> rfc20.org>
Cc: 58472 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#58472: [PATCH] Make `message-unique-id' less prone to collisions
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 18:38:48 -0700

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On 10/17/22 11:40, Matt Armstrong wrote:

> I like it.

Eli doesn't, so I'll drop the idea for now. I didn't realize we were 
close to releasing 29.1, and I agree with Eli that adding a make-nonce 
primitive is not something to do close to a release.


> With respect to "cryptographic purposes" how about mentioning that
> `random' itself is potentially seeded from a cryptographically weak
> source and makes no promise to use a PRNG suitable for cryptography?  If
> I'm right about those two assertions, I think they are important to
> mention.

Good point. This can be done in the documentation now: this doesn't hurt 
anything release-relevant, as it's simply documenting what we have. I 
installed the attached.

[0001-Improve-random-doc-re-nonces.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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