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~moonsheep

I mean, if you don't need secrecy you can just use a random 130-bit number and get equivalent collision resistance. That's basically what UUIDs are. Of course doing that misses the point of the number servers entirely (which I suspect is mostly for the fun of it).

That said there are some real world problems that involve getting everyone to agree on a number (most notably addressing). I mean, that's basically all IANA does.

And it's a tough problem!

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