[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #44078: Add an email pseudonymization function that preserves first letter and TLD

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#44078: Add an email pseudonymization function that preserves first letter and TLD
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 Reporter:  allendav          |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General           |     Version:
 Severity:  normal            |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  gdpr needs-patch  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by lakenh):

 I'm not sure if I would consider this pseudonymous with my email,
 especially for users with custom email domains (like myself). For example,
 an email I use on several WordPress installs would spit out the following
 out of this function:
 `w*@*****.me`


 That's still rather unique, imo.


 I think a better way would be to either standardize or randomize character
 lengths. We could still keep the TLD for debugging purposes though, if
 really necessary. So let's say the standard could be 8 chars for the
 address and 6 chars for the domain everytime, plus the TLD:

 `********@******.me` is much more anonymous, without losing much debug
 value.


 Perhaps we could look into rounding up to standard characters too, say
 maybe in tiers of 8 chars (that would preserve even more debug value)

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