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Re:Blog post id enumeration can lead to unwanted information... by gmac on Monday February 29, 2016 @01:53AM (#11193975)
I suggest you remove the remaining vowels from that, giving base 27. Then you have no worries about accidentally generating obscenities.
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Re:Blog post id enumeration can lead to unwanted information... by stan_rogers on Monday February 29, 2016 @02:12AM (#11194027)
Oddly, nobody ever seems to worry about that with hashes, encryption output or GUIDs... but if it's a worry, then, sure, hey, why not. (By the way, that system has been in regular use for more than 20 years in commercial software.)
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Re:Blog post id enumeration can lead to unwanted information... by zo1 on Monday February 29, 2016 @02:21AM (#11194057)
Thank you for that! I could have had a very front-facing "dirty" bug make it into production soon.
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Re:Blog post id enumeration can lead to unwanted information... by dsr_ on Monday February 29, 2016 @08:20AM (#11195250)
GDDMNSHTFCK.
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Re:Blog post id enumeration can lead to unwanted information... by gmac on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @07:26AM (#11252530)
Bless you!
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