[Catalyst] Encrypt /Decrypt URI

[Christopher H. Laco]

Matija Grabnar wrote:
> Bill Moseley wrote:
>> What you are proposing is if item 7 is instead encoded as
>> 84bc3da1b3e33a18e8d5e1bdd7a18d7a then they are less likely to try
>> other numbers because of, ... why?  Because it's too daunting of a task?
>> It's a big scary md5 instead of a primary key?
>>   =

> Well, in a way. Because the space they need to search to find the "next"
> item in a md5 or similar scheme is many orders of magnitude larger than
> in a system where the numbers are consecutive  (i.e. o(1)).

That's why I just use uuids and be done with it, if not as pks, then at
least as an alternate key for external references to a resource.

But I giress...
/me trots back to coding...awaiting his Catalyst beer stein.

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