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On 05/08/2016 07:12 PM, Christian Huitema wrote:<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:036d01d1a97f$0862abc0$19280340$@huitema.net"
type="cite">The "URL" variation would have the interest of
minimizing the length of the message. It has some obvious
drawbacks, if access to shortened URL is somehow monitored by the
adversaries.</blockquote>
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Another problem with shortened URLs is that where regular URLs
might be thought of as a sparse address space (though <i>very</i>
non-uniform) shortened URLs are very dense address spaces. Try one
that is real, then increment and see what you get. Some juicy stuff
is stashed in there.<br>
<br>
-kb, the Kent who actually did some let's-explore-the-space playing
years before he (last week-ish) saw--and appreciated--the story on
the security risk there.<br>
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