> if your systems are set up in a sane way, the MAC address alone would prevent collisions, no? > And on the same system, are collisions even possible?
Google says "In the case of standard version 1 and 2 UUIDsusing unique MAC addresses from network cards, collisions can occur only when an implementation varies from the standards, either inadvertently or intentionally." I used to use UUIDs, but when looking at a database using many foreign keys, it was a debug nightmare looking for a specific key. After switching to auto increment fields, its nice when debugging to look for 'templateId=4310' and not 'templateId='8af78580-bb03-4674-92ab-33cef99afdb2'. On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Jay Kreibich <j...@kreibi.ch> wrote: > > There are some minor points, but I agree that it basically boils down to > “serial IDs break security-by-obscurity.” > > That’s true, but…. > > -j > > > > > > On Nov 30, 2017, at 9:00 AM, Keith Medcalf <kmedc...@dessus.com> wrote: > > > > > > Well, in my opinion the guy is an idiot. The way to avoid the issues he > is describing as the problems with serial IDs (or using the RowID) are > simple to avoid: DO NOT DO THOSE THINGS! If you know that disclosing the > RowID in a URL is ungood, then DO NOT DO THAT. Sheesh. As my good buddy > Buggs Bunny would say "What a maroon!". > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: sqlite-users [mailto:sqlite-users- > >> boun...@mailinglists.sqlite.org] On Behalf Of Simon Slavin > >> Sent: Thursday, 30 November, 2017 07:16 > >> To: SQLite mailing list > >> Subject: [sqlite] Article on AUTOINC vs. UUIDs > >> > >> Thought some of you might enjoy seeing this article. I make no > >> comment on what I think of the reasoning therein. It’s set in the > >> PostgreSQL world, but you could make an external function for SQLite > >> which generates UUIDs. > >> > >> <https://www.clever-cloud.com/blog/engineering/2015/05/20/why-auto- > >> increment-is-a-terrible-idea/> > >> > >> "Today, I'll talk about why we stopped using serial integers for our > >> primary keys, and why we're now extensively using Universally Unique > >> IDs (or UUIDs) almost everywhere." > >> > >> Simon. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> sqlite-users mailing list > >> sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > >> http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > sqlite-users mailing list > > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
