Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo...
by robocat on Sunday November 21, 2021 @02:48PM
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You need to keep your project names secret, otherwise people will maliciously collide them on purpose.
It has always disturbed me that magician’s names of power in books are far too short: I presume there is more encoding than just the letters - the intonation perhaps contains a lot of entropy. Otherwise a name like Ged could be brute forced (or would that make a good short fantasy story?)
Edit: Related is the short story “The nine billion names of god” - the story is archived a bit incorrectly, it starts in middle of the page with no heading, with the line “This is a slightly unusual request”: https://archive.org/stream/ninebillionnames00clar/ninebillio...
It has always disturbed me that magician’s names of power in books are far too short: I presume there is more encoding than just the letters - the intonation perhaps contains a lot of entropy. Otherwise a name like Ged could be brute forced (or would that make a good short fantasy story?)
Edit: Related is the short story “The nine billion names of god” - the story is archived a bit incorrectly, it starts in middle of the page with no heading, with the line “This is a slightly unusual request”: https://archive.org/stream/ninebillionnames00clar/ninebillio...