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sedatklast Wednesday at 1:08 AM1 replyview on HN

You mean someone who wants to attack your system might be discouraged by Base32 encoding?


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marifjerenlast Wednesday at 1:36 AM

Sorry, I'm not familiar with the ULID spec. You seem to be, hence my asking. Are you saying monotonic/sequential ULIDs are just (or just as easily enumerated as) Base32-encoded integers?

Oh and yeah, I guess I do think lots of script / AI kiddies would be discouraged by, or fail to see an opportunity when presented with, something that does not look like the numbers they saw in school.