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Do you think it's more likely that they invented a unique id scheme that requires 50 bytes, or that they're using an overly wide datatype for ordinary UUIDs?
by mdellabitta 10y ago
Do you think it's more likely that they invented a unique id scheme that requires 50 bytes, or that they're using an overly wide datatype for ordinary UUIDs?
- tagrun 10y agoAnd I have to pick one of those two options? Like I mentioned, there are different UUID/GUID schemes using more than 128 bits publicly available already. You don't have to invent one. They may simply be using one of those with additional bytes reserved for future algorithmic changes (using first few bytes as a header to specify the algorithm).
- mdellabitta 10y agoBut is it likely that they are? I would imagine no.