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by zbuf 3594 days ago
These keys have always seemed remarkably short.

Roughly how many CPU-hours does it take to find a collision?

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"It takes 4 seconds to generate a colliding 32bit key id on a GPU"

source: https://evil32.com/

I'm using ABCDABCD, and from memory it took a couple of hours. The hardest part was picking a 'vanity' short id that wasn't already taken.