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The collision rate seems pretty high and to someone with a bit of resources (say 500 ips) to go through the ids would take 3~ days at 1 request per second. The
by diziet 13y ago
The collision rate seems pretty high and to someone with a bit of resources (say 500 ips) to go through the ids would take 3~ days at 1 request per second.
The party would have a list of of flickr users / email combinations.
The best way to fix this if they want to have the urls work for some backward compatible reason is probably severe rate limiting after x requests if they do not want to expire these requests -- right? Otherwise, something the size of UUID will make the search space too large.
- baby 13y agoThis is not a collision rate. Collision is when two plain text gives the same hash.
- unreal37 13y agoNo, collision is not exclusively for hashes. The term can be used for any area where there's a high ability to encounter a value already in use. In this case, by guessing or incrementing.
- ubershmekel 13y agocol·li·sion kəˈliZHən/Submit noun 1. an instance of one moving object or person striking violently against another. "a midair collision between two aircraft" synonyms: crash, accident, impact, smash, bump, hit, fender bender, wreck, pileup More an instance of conflict between opposing ideas, interests, or factions. "a collision between experience and theory" synonyms: conflict, clash; More 2. COMPUTING an event of two or more records being assigned the same identifier or location in memory.
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