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Comment by survirtual

3 years ago

Why is this complex…just take a sha3 hash of the email body + timestamp, then b58 it or format any way you want. Instant uuid per email.

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cryptonector  3 years ago

Yes, that's what I say elsewhere. Digest some of the headers (not all) and the body. If you do it right you can even use that for dedup.

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