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Luit

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    Comment #6159808

    Perhaps slightly off-topic: The name, GmailSharedTasks, doesn't look like one that Google's legal department would agree with. Your brand/product name incorporates a Google tradema…

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    Comment #5680658

    And another question: what would this be called as a software algorithm? Is it a binary tree walk?

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    Comment #5680647

    I see some just found the piece of JavaScript that registered the handlers, and others found lists by those people, but... did anyone else find the codes manually? I did. I quickly…

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    Comment #5586259

    A slightly more interesting approach: find out all non-overlapping ranges you need to test, and then run the fair-and-square generator, testing each to check in which of the ranges…

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    Comment #4091331

    One way to get a good strong secret key for this purpose: $ python >>> import os >>> os.urandom(64)

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    Comment #4091305

    I agree I'm a bit inconsistent, but the library is well written, and exchanging the hashing function is a trivial task. That's not really quite "writing your own". I just mean to d…

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    Comment #4090842

    My point exactly! Armin (the maker/maintainer of the module) will probably consider doing this somewhere in the future.

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    Comment #4090782

    Well then fork it and make it use HMAC with SHA256/512... Additionally, "Do not use this module" is bad advice if it leads to someone making their own MAC implementation, because t…

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    Comment #3308672

    IMO there's one missing from the list of alternatives: Markdrop ( http://www.markdrop.com/ ) ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3089355 )

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