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sam_lowry_
on July 12, 2025
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'123456' password exposed chats for 64M McDonald's...
or ULIDs or any other partially sortable ids.
sebazzz
on July 12, 2025
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ULID are not necessarily sortable, just UUIDs consensed in a shorter string by using more characters than 0-9A-F
sam_lowry_
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ULID = Unique Lexicographically sortable IDentifier ;-)
jszymborski
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ULIDs are sorta the opposite of the HMAC method, where you can't query for the nth ID, but you can sort the IDs.
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