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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoinica MtGox account compromised
by
rjk
on 24/07/2012, 16:19:42 UTC
I recently had a debate with someone whose current job position is "security architect" (my own background is in crypto and security, but I don't work with it today) who didn't like our choice of 128 bit UUIDs as authentication tokens in URLs. He believed we should add a unique string for our specific service in front of the UUID, to lessen the risk for clashes with other services.
Oh derp, I just rolled my eyes out of my head.  Roll Eyes
The UU in UUID stands for Universally Unique. And it is unique, unless some bonehead doesn't use any entropy.
"Security Architect" indeed.