[ijustdontcare]

what about uuid, a well researched and established standard?

[veeti]

> Compact. It uses more symbols than UUID (A-Za-z0-9_~) and has the same number of unique options in just 22 symbols instead of 36.

[gvx]

This is basically UUIDv4, encoded with a url-safe variant of base64 (except UUIDv4 reserves a few bits for saying "this is a UUID, specifically version 4").

[namelost]

UUIDs are not secure unless they are version 4 (random) and generated from a secure randomness source.

[jimktrains2]

What do you mean by secure? Unpredictable?

[wruza]

The same applies for any unique ids in general.

[dchest]

Yes, but the holy UUID standard specifies multiple ways of generating them from sticks and stones, invented before people knew how to properly generate random bytes.