Timeline for Is it possible to regenerate / generate a new identicon?
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| May 1, 2015 at 8:47 | answer | added | user403807 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 30, 2015 at 17:00 | history | edited | kos | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 30, 2015 at 16:58 | answer | added | kos | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 30, 2015 at 15:48 | comment | added | kos | @Seth Nevermind again, it's a hash of the email, I misread once again. Sorry again. | |
| Apr 30, 2015 at 15:38 | comment | added | kos | @Seth Sorry I misread this meta post. Nevermind. You're right, in this case I'd have to change my email address or to generate a custom one by myself using the original implementation. But bear with me, being the algorithm publicly available and being unique the identicon generated isn't it a little insecure? Reversing the function to create the identicon one could be able to know my email address, so I guess I'm missing something. | |
| Apr 30, 2015 at 15:19 | comment | added | Seth Mod | No, they aren't. You don't. Technically the little squares are called "identicons" and you can't just "generate a new one" on gravatar's site (as I explained above). | |
| Apr 30, 2015 at 15:16 | comment | added | kos | @Seth The problem it's I'm not even associated in any way to gravatar.com; I tried to sign up with my SE accounts email address and I didn't get any message about being signed up already, a new profile was created and there's no SE gravatar available in my profile, so I don't think my SE accounts are linked to it | |
| Apr 30, 2015 at 15:11 | history | edited | kos | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 30, 2015 at 15:11 | comment | added | Seth Mod | I believe you have to either get a new IP address or change your email. The point of gravatar is to identify you though, so randomly changing it is not easy or advised. | |
| Apr 30, 2015 at 15:10 | history | asked | kos | CC BY-SA 3.0 |