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You're going to have to copy and paste these anyway (no chance in hell of remembering them) so don't see what they get you over an UUID.

• kristopolous 6y ago
  Doesn't even pass the easy to say test, which would be useful
  • debdut 6y ago
    Well, cause it's Shakespeare, I will try to create simple non Shakespearean versions
    • kristopolous 6y ago
      Try using Gilbert and Sullivan, they're pretty fun. Example from Thepsis: ALL. Goodness gracious How audacious Earth is spacious Why come here? Our impeding Their proceeding Were good breeding That is clear. DIA. Jupiter, hear my plea. Upon the mount if they light. There'll be an end of me. I won't be seen by daylight. AP. Tartarus is the place These scoundrels you should send to-- Should they behold my face. My influence there's an end to. If that's not your thing try Tennessee Williams or Arthur Miller. Gilbert and Sullivan are all public domain so that's nice. You could also go dramatically the other way and use flytings for your corpus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyting There's probably clever ways to get the right entropy from their body of work while not turning it into word salad, best of luck.
      • debdut 6y ago
        I will surely try if I find time, thank you very much
• innocenat 6y ago
  It probably help with recognition. You probably won't remember if you have seen 'b7b05951-c3d3-4a7f-b65b-122e7d2543d4' before, but you are likely to remember that you have seen 'Cathleen d Dieball the Monolith of Alderson reflects Arly Arnie Keenan and 18 large ants' before (based on the chance that there are no similar uuid) And if also give you something to read in your head when you see it. "Oh, you mean the 18 ants object?"
  • ponker 6y ago
    Hmm, good point. We do refer to UUIDs at the office with things like "Look at the F6A request."
  • sneak 6y ago
    Unless the collision is adversarial. There is a tool that brute forces the generation of SSH server key fingerprints to make the beginning and end look like the one you’re trying to spoof, so someone who knows the first or last few bytes would likely be fooled. The point of the UUID is that it’s got enough entropy to be unique. If you start reducing it to smaller slices of its entropy, it isn’t a UUID anymore. I think projects like this that try to make high entropy things appear more human-manageable do more harm than good.
    • phaemon 6y ago
      That doesn't make any sense. There's no such thing as an adversarial collision for UUIDs. They're not hashes and don't have any security at all. If you want to use someone else's UUID, you just can! > If you start reducing it to smaller slices of its entropy Which it doesn't, as has been explained in the comments already several times.
    • innocenat 6y ago
      Well, of course. Doesn't change the fact that it allow easier recognition, but you need to double-check it. (Not sure why I need to explicitly state that)
    • dogma1138 6y ago
      UUID’s should not be used for “security” they aren’t hashes, or suited to be used as encryption keys or any thing else. They don’t need to be kept secret as part of their trust model. There should never be a situation in which the disclosure of a UUID breaks the trust or security model of your application your design is wrong.