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[GH-ISSUE #99] Shorter UUID aliases #694
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Originally created by @TheLastGimbus on GitHub (Nov 25, 2020).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/anonaddy/anonaddy/issues/99
Hi there!
First of all, thank you so muuchhh for creating this - this is just perfect for keeping my email clean and not being afraid of creating new accounts
But many times, I've got weird errors and bugs on many sites because of using so long so weird emails - my cellphone providers sent me 3 sim cards, and sent 12 identical emails about it 🤷 They said it's because my email broke their system or something 🤷
Maybe I have too long nickname and this gets me into trouble, but if you could also make UUID shorter, it would probably save some trouble
@oregonpillow commented on GitHub (Nov 30, 2020):
I would second this. Would be nice to set the length of UUID.
@stefanschramek commented on GitHub (Nov 30, 2020):
Actually there is no shorter version of UUID:
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt
Unfortunately I also have issues from time to time using UUID based email addresses.
@TheLastGimbus commented on GitHub (Nov 30, 2020):
Just
@stefanschramek commented on GitHub (Nov 30, 2020):
I think it would be better to let it generate a random string with given RegEx pattern, as the whole idea of UUID is not possible anymore.
So anybody could set up his own pattern!
@willbrowningme commented on GitHub (Dec 17, 2020):
I'll add a new format soon that will be a shorter random string of alpha numberic characters, probably 8 long or so.
For example:
7dab4cpz@anonaddy.meWhat do you think?
@TheLastGimbus commented on GitHub (Dec 17, 2020):
That would be great - this should actually replace UUID if you ask me - for now, I am pretty much always using custom words...
Ps. maybe 10-12, to run out of combinations slower
@willbrowningme commented on GitHub (Dec 18, 2020):
I will likely keep the UUID format as there are still those that like using it but will move it down the list order and mainly focus on the new random string format.
With a string length of 8 and an alphabet of all lowercase letters and numbers (36) then there are about 2.8 trillion possible combinations which should be plenty of entropy.
@willbrowningme commented on GitHub (Jan 7, 2021):
I've just added a new "Random Characters" alias format that allows you to create aliases where the local part is an alphanumeric string of length 8.
This is avilable on the free plan too so you can use this instead of the UUID aliases now.
@TheLastGimbus commented on GitHub (Jan 7, 2021):
Thanks so much! Waiting to see this in browser extension as well!
@willbrowningme commented on GitHub (Jan 7, 2021):
@TheLastGimbus will update it as soon as I can, it's long overdue a complete makeover to be honest, lot's of features I need to add.