UXID

User eXperience focused IDentifiers (UXIDs) are identifiers which:

• Describe the resource (aid in debugging and investigation)
• Work well with copy and paste (double clicking selects the entire ID)
• Can be shortened for low cardinality resources
• Are secure against enumeration attacks
• Can be generated by application code (not tied to the datastore)
• Are K-sortable (lexicographically sortable by time - works well with datastore indexing)
• Do not require any coordination (human or automated) at startup, or generation
• Are very unlikely to collide (more likely with less randomness)
• Are easily and accurately transmitted to another human using a telephone

Many of the concepts of Stripe IDs have been used in this library.

Usage

Generating UXIDs via the CLI

go run cli/main.go

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/riddler/uxid-rs.

License

The project is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.