Wikipedia:IP Hash

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A new policy proposal for a technical implementation to mask IP addresses from public view, while implementing an IP Hash Check feature on a user account.

Since this is a feature request, please put it on Bugzilla rather than here

Contents 1 Rational 2 Technical 3 Current situation 4 Suggestions/comments?

[edit] Rational

To achieve the following:

• Improved privacy
• Counter sockpuppet
• Counter voting fraud

[edit] Technical

IP hash of an IP address is an encrypted version of the IP address. The same IP address will have the same IP hash.

[edit] Current situation

There is an IP check available to certain developers for checking IPs, however this is only used in limited circumstances. The objection to making this more widely available have been on the grounds of privacy. An IP hash would help this situation by enabling any account to be matched to an IP hash without making the IP publicly available.

[edit] Suggestions/comments?

Kindly post comments or changes on talk page. Erwin