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Re: [milter-greylist] Re: is this a DoS?

2004-06-01 by Cyril Guibourg

Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@...> writes:

> Hum, that's a real problem. 
> I see several way of fixing the problem
> 1) raise the truncation to a higher value (64? 128?)
> This impacts the memory usage.
> 2) ensure regex are matched on the address before it is truncated
>
> 3) Document it as a known problem
>
> Opinions?

What about storing an MD5 hash instead of the address ? 
 
The drawback I see is that there would be no way to easily interpret
the dump db but after all, syslogs can help when tracking white list 
candidates.

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