A better "industry best practice" for comparing address books (opens in new tab)

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2 pointsmasonlee14y ago2 comments

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I wrote this post. We have opt-in, hash-based address book comparison working in a fairly popular consumer app, if anyone is interested in sharing experiences. I recommend it as the way to go.

tejaswiy14y ago

tl; dr: Send hashes of email addresses in the contact list instead of sending the addresses and compare.

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masonleeOP14y ago

I wrote this post. We have opt-in, hash-based address book comparison working in a fairly popular consumer app, if anyone is interested in sharing experiences. I recommend it as the way to go.

tejaswiy14y ago

tl; dr: Send hashes of email addresses in the contact list instead of sending the addresses and compare.

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