Navarr's Tech Side » anonymous http://tech.navarr.me The Technical Side of my Life Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:32:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to Safely Anonymize Users http://tech.navarr.me/2009/03/how-to-safely-anonymize-users.html http://tech.navarr.me/2009/03/how-to-safely-anonymize-users.html#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:26:00 +0000 Navarr http://temptech.gtaero.net/?p=68 You want to allow Anon to post messages; you want to block their IP address if they don’t follow your terms; but you don’t want them to be traceable.  The solution to this is excessively simple.  One-way encrypt their IP address.

This can be done in PHP simply by grabbing the MD5 of their IP address.

The last note is; this still isn’t completely anonymous.  Anyone could easily compile a rainbow table for IP address MD5 results.  Try mixing it up.  Apply a secret key to the MD5 before, after, or even between the numbers.  Encrypt the numbers to letters before throwing it through an MD5.  Either way, you gain the ability to identify anonymous users through a Unique ID without having anything of use to a hacker or federal employee.

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