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by cbowal 3198 days ago
Known as "Security through Obscurity" [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity

2 comments

Debatable. If the address is really unguessable, the address acts like a regular key.

It's still not good practice, since most systems treat addresses with far less care than passwords and often save and/or transmit them unencrypted.

Oh, I am not saying it's a good practice at all. I was just answering the question.

I still think it's a low-friction solution. But a secure one -- hardly.