On: The UX of UUIDs

[dheera]

> hashes each set of 6 digits

nice, now i can dictionary attack any key, 6 digits at a time

[Mavvie → dheera]

I don't think that's how it works... It's a checksum, not letting you check if each section is part of the key.

At worst, the key would have some portion less entropy since there's a lot of bits used for checksums.