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Ask HN: How much IP address needs to be cut to effectively anonymise HTTP logs?
1 point by DamonHD 14 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
I'd like to open the data behind research on https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html and internally I am retaining RSS feed fetch logs with the last IPv4 octet hidden, but what is a reasonable level to hide to avoid re-identification (if I remove other obvious User-Agent IDs)? The last two octets? Seeing some of the IP helps decide if a visitor is a repeat, or emerging from a cloud with a randomish IP, etc.



The last octet with ipv4 and the last 72 bits in IPv6 should be ok.


Thank you!




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