Strange question, I know, my utility is that I assign two url's to a user, one links to an anonymous profile, the other to a public profile. The url argument is encrypted to hide the usernid.

I run these two urls through shorturl sequentially creating two urls that look like this.

http://www.mysite.com/lqqC (public)
http://www.mysite.com/lqq1 (private)

So 1) are the above links sequential? and if so, 2) Could a hacker take the second link 'lqq1' and then determine the second link 'lqqC'?

I don't really understand how you come up with the links, but since it's mathematical. So I by shortening a very long encrypted argument, I may in fact be creating a way for someone to determine the public profile!!

Comments

tpainton’s picture

tpainton commented

Pretty simple support question. Would be very helpful to know answer. Thanks.

weseze’s picture

weseze commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Everyone can determine the next link provided they know a bit of programming and can copy-paste some code from this module. The string is just another representation of a number, it's not an encryption!