Re: [mirrorbrain] Authenticating downloads?

From: Peter Pöml <peter_at_poeml.de>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 21:33:31 +0100
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 03:27:27PM +0100, Peter Pöml wrote:
> I spent a little time playing with this. I basically implemented
> creating such temporary links in MirrorBrain. 
> 
> A quick and easy way to implement this is adding two things to the URL:
> the request time as seconds since epoch, and a MD5 hash from a string
> concatenated of epoch time and a shared secret. 

By the way, if downloads from mirrors should be more restricted, we
could add the clients IP address into the ticket.

Peter


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