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Reduce collision prob for link shortener #28

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Boldewyn opened this issue Nov 29, 2011 · 0 comments

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Boldewyn commented Nov 29, 2011

CRC32 has a too large possibility for collisions.

We could use pack(index) . substring(crc32(url)), which is still acceptably random enough to not be guessed.

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