3:28 PM
Friday, May 30, 2003
<thinking-out-loud>
I’m slightly confused.
When entering the details of your friends in the Foaf-a-matic2, you can enter either their email address in the mbox field, or an SHA’d value.
But then what happens if you have “hide email addresses” selected?
This means that the value in the email address box gets encrypted via SHA. So all addresses you entered which were already encrypted get encrypted again. Surely this is an oversight?
Should there be a separate field completely for SHA’d mbox values?
I think this is the only decent way around it.
That way, when loading FOAF files, if you’d previously encrypted their addresses, those encrypted values get loaded, and don’t get double-encrypted when you re-save the file.
</thinking-out-loud>