Ask HN: Please review my node.js fun project: Selfdestructing email aliases.

Re:Ask HN: Please review my node.js fun project: Selfdestruc... by mrcharles on Friday April 23, 2010 @10:51AM (#1288185)

This is a very interesting system, and I can see myself using it frequently for things like throwaway email addresses for forums, required registrations, and other things.

However, I would want to know that security issues as mentioned elsewhere in the thread were addressed before hand. Especially using it for throwaways for websites, which will often involve a short term password, you don't wnat someone else to be able to create that alias and then reset my password and compromise my account.

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Re:Ask HN: Please review my node.js fun project: Selfdestruc... by pilif on Friday April 23, 2010 @11:03AM (#1288232)

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Update: The issue is now fixed. No ID will ever be given out twice any more while still keeping the garbage collection working correctly and deleting aliases.

SETNX is great :-)

This fixes issue #7 (http://github.com/pilif/tempalias/issues/closed/#issue/7)

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Re:Ask HN: Please review my node.js fun project: Selfdestruc... by jerf on Friday April 23, 2010 @03:36PM (#1289247)

If you are really concerned about the privacy issues, grab the code and run it yourself somewhere, which wouldn't be a bad idea anyhow; if you're that concerned about privacy you shouldn't be relying on any external email service.

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