# Is using a GUID for an uploaded filename secure?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-using-a-guid-for-an-uploaded-filename-secure/67062
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [2017 年 7 月 29 日午前 11:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-using-a-guid-for-an-uploaded-filename-secure/67062 "2017-07-29T11:53:48Z")
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### Author: ![rriemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rriemann/32/115238_2.png) [@rriemann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rriemann)
#### Post date: [2017 年 7 月 29 日午前 10:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-using-a-guid-for-an-uploaded-filename-secure/67062/7 "2017-07-29T10:39:02Z")

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> [@Quick image resizing and markdown image dimensions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-image-resizing-and-markdown-image-dimensions/66812/23):
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> For example, email can have embedded images (not public accessible link).

People discussed the idea to send out only PGP encrypted mails. If this idea would be implemented, I agree that it would be nice to also increase the security for images and embed them. However, at the moment I appreciate that mails are small in size because I do not have GMail with unlimited storage.

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