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Also use a true randomness source to minimize the chance for collision.

• robocat 5y ago
  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/ninebillionnames00clar_djvu.txt https://archive.org/stream/ninebillionnames00clar/ninebillio...
  • _dain_ 5y ago
    I think that's the plot of "Unsong" (I never finished it though)