Comment on Researchers Say They Found IP Addresses for ‘Anonymous’ Econ Forum PostsparentComments−bagels3ytopic_id is public information, and predictable. It's neither secret, nor random.−rawling3yThis is a weird use case (deliberately making the hash public) and the usual concept of a salt feels weird here. Any kind of server-side secret would have effectively stopped this attack, even if it was the same in every hash.
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topic_id is public information, and predictable. It's neither secret, nor random.
This is a weird use case (deliberately making the hash public) and the usual concept of a salt feels weird here. Any kind of server-side secret would have effectively stopped this attack, even if it was the same in every hash.