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by disruptiveink 848 days ago
That's an unfortunately common misconception. Your example is not security though obscurity any more than password authentication is, though.

Security through obscurity means substituting security for a flawed algorithm that is usually trivial to exploit if the attacker is made aware of the algorithm. Think things like no authentication and ROT13ing and Base64ing clientside. If the method leaks or is discovered, the whole system is broken.

You just told me your algorithm and I cannot get to your banana because the UUID key space is insanely large. So that's not security to obscurity.