presents
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MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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presents
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New UUID Formats from IETF
I’ve been working on a robust scheme for encrypted sequential IDs, which is done, including implementations in Rust, JavaScript and Python, pending just a smidgeon more writing about it and reviewing a decision on naming. You store an integer in the database, then encrypt it with a real block cipher, and stringify with Base58. I have three modes: one for 32-bit IDs, using Speck32/64 and producing 4–6 character IDs; one for 64-bit IDs, using Speck64/128 and producing 8–11 character IDs; and one hybrid, using the 32-bit mode for IDs below 2³² and the 64-bit mode above that, providing both a forwards-compatibility measure and a way of producing short IDs as long as possible. Contact me (see my profile) if you’re interested, or I’ll probably publish it in another day or two. Trouble is that I’ve been getting distracted with other related concepts, like optimally-short encoding by using encryption domains [0, 58¹), [58¹, 58²), …, [58¹⁰, 2⁶⁴) (this is format-preserving encryption; the main reputable and practical choices I’ve found are Hasty Pudding, which I’ve just about finished implementing but would like test vectors for but they’re on a dead FTP site, and NIST’s FF1 and FF3, which are patent-encumbered), and ways of avoiding undesirable patterns (curse words and such) by skipping integers from the database’s ID sequence if they encode to what you don’t want, and check characters with the Damm algorithm. If I didn’t keep getting distracted with these things, I’d have published a couple of weeks ago.
(I am not aware of any open-source library embodying a scheme like what I propose—all that I’ve found have either reduced scope or badly broken encryption; https://github.com/yi-jiayu/presents is sound, but doesn’t stringify; Hashids is broken almost beyond belief and should not be considered encryption; Optimus uses an extremely weak encryption.)
ulid
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Plan B for UUIDs: double AES-128
I really like ULID for this problem (e.g: https://github.com/ahawker/ulid)
- same number of bytes as UUID
- start with a date, so has great locality. Plus you get extra information in the uid that you can extract.
- can be created from an existing date or uuid, and exported to a uuid, so there is a migration path
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New UUID Formats from IETF
As the author of a popular ULID implementation in python[1], the spec has no stewardship anymore. The specification repo[2] has plenty of open issues and no real guidance or communication beyond language implementation authors discussing corner cases. The monotonic functionality is ambiguous (at best) and is implemented differently per-languages [3].
Functionality, UUIDv7 might be the _same_ but the hope would be for a more rigid specification for interoperability.
[1]: https://github.com/ahawker/ulid
[2]: https://github.com/ulid/spec
[3]: https://github.com/ulid/spec/issues/11
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Sortable Collision-Free UUIDs
Looks similar to ULID[0] (I am the author of a popular python implementation[1]).
It appears to have a similar constraint that two ID's generated within the same timestamp (ms, ns) have no strong guarantee of ordering. That might not be a deal breaker depending on your use case but something to consider.
* https://github.com/ulid/spec
* https://github.com/ahawker/ulid
- Usando ULIDs para criar ordem em dados não ordenados
What are some alternatives?
uuid7 - UUID version 7, which are time-sortable (following the Peabody RFC4122 draft)
ksuid - K-Sortable Globally Unique IDs
uuid6-python - New time-based UUID formats which are suited for use as a database key
python-ulid - ULID implementation for Python
dart-uuid - Generate RFC4122(v1,v4,v5,v6,v7,v8) UUIDs
uuid - Generate RFC-compliant UUIDs in JavaScript
vanity-uuid - Create "readable" UUIDs such as "5eedbed5-f05e-b055-ada0-d15ab11171e5" for all your UUID needs!
UUID - :snowflake: A PHP library for generating universally unique identifiers (UUIDs).
prototypes - Draft Prototypes and Tests for UUIDv6 and beyond
EXREX - Irregular methods on regular expressions
xeger - Library to generate random strings from regular expressions.
essential-generators - Dead Simple Document Generation