[PATCH] [XoIRC] Make default nicks more meaningful (#5385)

[Phil Bordelon]

Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 at 18:36:49 -0600, Phil Bordelon wrote:
>> By default, XoIRC uses the username when another nick is not
>> provided.  Alas, for every XO, this is 'olpc'.  This makes for
>> rather a mess in the IRC channels.
> 
>> This patch instead generates a more-meaningful nick:
> 
>> * It takes up to 11 alphabetic characters from the user's Sugar
>>   nick;
>> * it appends a hyphen; and
>> * it adds the last four hexadecimal digits of the MD5 hash of
>>   the user's public key.
> 
> If you instead chose the *first* few hex digits of the *SHA-1* of the user's
> public key, it'd match the beginning of the XO's default userIDs in the normal
> activity sharing/chat mechanism, which may be useful if you're trying to sort
> out network issues.

Simon,

Thanks for the feedback!  Attached is a patch which does just that, instead
of the previous MD5 stuff.  I wasn't aware that SHA1 wasn't the way to go,
but that's an easy change.

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