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Comment by zeveb

> Exploring 2^56 URLs is not that easy.

Not easy, but not impossible. And it's not the case that an attacker is looking for one interesting URL: he's looking for any interesting URLs. Depending on the number of URLs stored in the service, and the fraction which are at all interesting, it may very well be worth the attacker's bother.

As an aside, why the heck is my post so heavily downvoted? It's factual: the given lengths are not long enough to be secure from brute-forcing; they probably will be brute-forced.

parent zeveb 10 years ago

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