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-rw-r--r--doc/plugins/emailauth.mdwn5
-rw-r--r--doc/todo/emailauth.mdwn2
-rw-r--r--doc/todo/separate_authentication_from_authorization.mdwn5
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/plugins/emailauth.mdwn b/doc/plugins/emailauth.mdwn
index 74097d2cc..463666535 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/emailauth.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/emailauth.mdwn
@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ This plugin lets users log into ikiwiki using any email address. To complete
the login, a one-time-use link is emailed to the user, and they can simply
open that link in their browser.
-It is enabled by default, but can be turned off if you want to only use
-some other form of authentication, such as [[passwordauth]] or [[openid]].
+It is (indirectly) enabled by default, but can be turned off if you want to
+only use some other form of authentication, such as [[passwordauth]] or
+[[openid]].
Users who have logged in using emailauth will have their email address used as
their username. In places where the username is displayed, like the
diff --git a/doc/todo/emailauth.mdwn b/doc/todo/emailauth.mdwn
index 4683bbad2..ec7b4b96d 100644
--- a/doc/todo/emailauth.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/emailauth.mdwn
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ Thoughts anyone? --[[Joey]]
>>>
>>> Another way to do it would be to hash the email address,
>>> so the commit appears to come from
->>> `smcv <smcv@dc84925053b18a910f4b95fb7ce1bf802eb7d80e>` instead of
+>>> `smcv <smcv@02f3eecb59311fc89970578832b63d57a071579e>` instead of
>>> from `smcv <smcv@debian.org>` - if the hash is of `mailto:whatever`
>>> (like my example one) then it's compatible with
>>> [FOAF](http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#term_mbox_sha1sum).
diff --git a/doc/todo/separate_authentication_from_authorization.mdwn b/doc/todo/separate_authentication_from_authorization.mdwn
index 389f014c9..1eca0dced 100644
--- a/doc/todo/separate_authentication_from_authorization.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/separate_authentication_from_authorization.mdwn
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ owner (and maybe their outsourced service providers), but not available
to random third parties. The principle of least astonishment would suggest
that we should do the same here.
+> This part is now addressed by cloaking email addresses:
+> `smcv@debian.org` → `smcv@02f3eecb59311fc89970578832b63d57a071579e`
+> (that's the sha1sum of `mailto:smcv@debian.org`, as used in FOAF).
+> --[[smcv]]
+
(The expectation of privacy for direct git commits is rather different:
I think we can expect direct git committers to know that they
should either set a plausible non-email-address in their git identity,