identity

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Index

• func Compute(challID, sourceID string) string

Functions

func Compute

func Compute(challID, sourceID string) string

Compute an indentity with is a unique name depending on the challenge and source ids contained within a request to avoid colliding with another instance, and a random uuid serving as salt.

It has a limited length of 16 thus could be used as a DNS label, while remaining most probably unguessable and large enough to scale (16 chars ^ 16 runes of hex alphabet = 18 446 744 073 709 551 616 combinations).

This identity is not predictable as it will internally combine a (crypto) random instance id that will get appended in the hash input function.