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by KMag
1277 days ago
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As others have pointed out, there are 2^31 non-negative values an Int32 can take on, and linear growth is probably a bad assumption. I should also probably point out some ambiguity in your analysis. To be clear, under the faulty assumption of linear consumption, if Int32s get exhausted in 10 years, switching to UInt32s will last 20 years of which 10 are already spent. So, under the faulty assumption of linearity, switching to UInt32s buys you an extra 10 years. 64-bit identifiers will last quite a while. Another defensible choice would be to switch to 128-bit unguessable identifiers (such as assigning them via AES-256 in counter mode) in order to provide defence in depth. If something goes wrong with your authentication, but the attacker is likely to spend millennia hammering your REST API with invalid IDs before exploiting an actual asset, then the consequences aren't so bad. |
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