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xienze
240 days ago
People really overthink this. You can safely expose internal IDs by doing a symmetric cipher, like a Feistel cipher. Even sequential IDs will appear random.
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whiskey-one
239 days ago
Looks easy on the surface, but the problem is key rotation.
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morshu9001
237 days ago
I didn't know about this problem but was already thinking it sounds even harder. And the resulting IDs are probably quite large.
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