Oh hahaha I was so confused hahaha I kept reading and rereading what I wrote, trying to see where I might have been unintentionally confrontational hahahahhaa

I find this as good news. People aren’t willing to accept below a certain standard, which, admittedly is lower than mine, but the standard is still there. This reaction is causing me to regain some faith in humanity.

What?

And?

Tove Jansson, creator of Moomin, was 31 when she first began the saga. Gladys Burrill ran a full marathon at age 92. Teiichi Igarashi climbed Mt. Fuji at age 100. Colonel Sanders started the USA food chain KFC at age 65. The thesaurus was invented by 73 year old Peter Roget. Momofuku Ando invented Ramen Cup Noodles at age 61. Julia Child began her PBS cooking show at age 51.

Just a few examples of long bloomers. Keep growing and developing your bud, and you, too, can bloom beautifully. All you need is time and patience.

The Translator was the nickname given to, what essentially was, the NSA supercomputer that could solve any (non-shift text) encryption by bruteforcing the key in under an hour (most of the time, in about 15 minutes). I mentioned DES, because it was an encryption so old that nearly everyone has heard about it, and one that I know was used on The Translator. And you’re right, DES was capped at 56 bit keys, because they could crack it without The Translator, if needed.

But the scope isn’t if the UUIDs are crackable (which, of course, they’re not, since they’re not encrypting anything). The scope is if using UUIDs as filenames in this publically accessible db a good way to hide the files. And the answer is: no it is not a good way, because a computer powerful enough can guess all possibilities in a matter of minutes, and query them all against the db to discover all files stored within.

The scope isn’t if they’re crackable (which, if course, they’re not, since they’re not encrypting anything). The scope is if using UUIDs as filenames in this publicaly accessible db a good way to hide the files. And the answer is: no it is not, because a computer powerful enough can guess all possibilities in a matter of minutes, and query them all against the db to discover all files stored within.

You should read into the NSA’s Translator. Granted, it’s relatively outdated with shifting text algorithms, but for a very long time (about half a century), it was able to bruteforce any key, regardless of length, in under an hour.

It’s not, though. And thinking that it is impossible is why DES, for example, was “translatable” by the NSA for decades. Never assume something is impossible just because it’s difficult.

I cannot. But the bruteforce is a mathematical guarantee.

It taking a long time doesn’t make it an impossibility. The fact that it has a limit of 122 bits, in and of itself, makes the possibility of a bruteforce a mathematical guarantee.

As long as you’re not rate limited, you absolutely could.

Wow. It actually identified something?

OK, umm, could I just have a frosty and a baked potato please?

Listen here, “bro”. “Fine” is well below my standard, ok?? The world wasn’t built on “fine”, now was it? No! It wasn’t! ᶠᶦⁿᵉ ᶦˢ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵍᵒᵒᵈ ᵉⁿᵒᵘᵍʰ ᶠᶠˢ ⁻⁻⁻ ⁻⁻ ⁻⁻⁻⁻ ⁻⁻⁻⁻ ⁽ᵗʳᵃᶦˡᶦⁿᵍ ᵐᵘᵐᵇˡᵉˢ⁾