[Popcon-developers] Drop atime and ctime for privacy reasons possible?

adrelanos adrelanos at riseup.net
Sat Nov 24 09:39:44 UTC 2012


Bill Allombert:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:37:00AM +0000, adrelanos wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> why <atime> <ctime> <package-name> <mru-program> <tag> is transmitted?
>>
>> Wouldn't it be enough to transmit <package-name> <mru-program> <tag>?
>>
>> Since the tag with RECENT-CTIME, OLD, or NOFILES can be calculated
>> locally, why there is need to transmit atime and ctime? I'd like to see
>> it dropped for privacy reasons.
> 
> Hello Adrelanos,
> 
> I do not know the design decision about sending atime and ctime. I will review
> the server side code to see whether it use the data (and how).

Hi,

can you share the results please?

Cheers,
adrelanos



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