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While you're not wrong, this is the type of thinking that can introduce security vulnerabilities. Your current systems might not be able to validate quintillio
by SkyPuncher 4y ago
While you're not wrong, this is the type of thinking that can introduce security vulnerabilities.
Your current systems might not be able to validate quintillions of UUID's per second, but your future systems might be able to (or at least get a lot closer).
- tsimionescu 4y agoThis is also the kind of thinking that people use for public-key cryptography: it's perfectly possible to guess the private key of any TLS cert, for example, it just takes a very long time with today's computers. Future computers may well guess it very quickly, so should we stop using it? Cryptography is a moving a target. Any cryptographic method except an OTP used with perfect opsec is brute forceable, and will need to be changed when your threat model changes (for example, when computing speed advances significantly).
- SkyPuncher 4y agoYes, but the public-key crptography includes a massive buffer against the unknown.