Hi, webratte.
What’s the benefit of this?
part 1: cases
there are 5 ways to hide an email address.
-
- through alias, example: username.aliasname@providersample.com - in this case we don’t know which address belongs to the user’s account, since the user uses an alias for this. A good example of the use of alias can be when you want to receive messages specific to a specific folder, by default gmail has this feature as well as other email providers as well.
-
- with message forwarding: you can forward a message to another mail server. that way, one email is public and another email is private. which guarantees some privacy, anonymity.
-
- through temporary email: with the temporary email you can have an email that will be deleted over time.
-
- Hash email: Today with blockchain technology, there are emails being hashed md5, sha-1 etc. You don’t know the email as the address is only known with a public key. The disadvantage of this method is that the hash is too large to process. Example:
testsample@gmail.com→708e87edfad175ca85f6ef218b5ca441(md5)
- Hash email: Today with blockchain technology, there are emails being hashed md5, sha-1 etc. You don’t know the email as the address is only known with a public key. The disadvantage of this method is that the hash is too large to process. Example:
-
- you could transform the email instead of an alphanumeric hash into a numeric hash, which decreases the size (the length). That’s what I’m requesting here. Example:
testsample@gmail.com→081-6932372(phone-number-hash-method)
- you could transform the email instead of an alphanumeric hash into a numeric hash, which decreases the size (the length). That’s what I’m requesting here. Example:
part 2: comparisons
708e87edfad175ca85f6ef218b5ca441(md5-hash-alphanumeric) vs 081-6932372(md5-hash-numeric)
part 3: final conclusions and arguments
- As I briefly demonstrated in these 5 use cases, there are ways to ensure anonymity, security, and privacy. Delta.chat uses email to receive and send messages, as there is no phone record - it would be nice to hide the email address for anonymity, security and privacy. - with an alphanumeric hash or a numeric hash.
- Another advantage of using a hash-number - you can rename this hash to a specific name, that way you don’t have to remember the person’s email, just their name. When we access a site on the internet, the site is associated with the ip number, this process is called dns - domain name service, it is a phone book. What I’m talking about here is associating the person’s full name with the email address, this email address is hidden through a numeric hash which in turn represents the person’s name. Let’s go to the example…
- Yo Vaha →
081-6932372→yovaha2924@sample.com- when someone adds the name Yo Vaha to her network, she is adding a hidden email with a numerical hash. The person’s name is unique and the email address is unique and the email hash is unique. What prevents spam, ensures greater privacy, control. It is close to the idea of dns(domain-name-service) and nft(non-fungible token)