muid 0.2.13

Memorable Unique Identifier

muid

Memorable Unique Identifiers

Wait you say ... that's an oxymoron

Memorable unique identifiers are a provocative misnomer. When generating unique identifiers such as privately used keys, memorability is antithetical to uniqueness. MUIDs might be better termed "hash-memorable" identifiers. They form a subset of UUIDs whose SHA-256 hashes are memorable. See the https://vimeo.com/397352413 for further explanation.

Start mining now

Just want to mine?

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microprediction/muid/master/examples/mine_from_venv.sh)"

If it fails you might need Python 3

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew install python

Using the library directly

As per https://muid.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ...

Install

pip install muid

Hash-memorability

>>> muid.mhash(b'f601f291896bb66b8a3c3d783077713a')
b'56a33411a3ae7cfc95597911708358ad'

Don't see it?

>>> muid.pretty(b'56a33411a3ae7cfc95597911708358ad',k1=6,k2=5)
'Shammy Llama'

Validation

>>> muid.animal(b'f601f291896bb66b8a3c3d783077713a')
'Shammy Llama'

>>> muid.validate(b'f601f291896bb66b8a3c3d783077713a')
True

Mining

>>> muid.mine()

{'hash': b'56a33411a3ae7cfc95597911708358ad',
'key': b'f601f291896bb66b8a3c3d783077713a',
'length': 11,
'pretty': 'Shammy Llama'}

{'hash': b'6ea176470adcff53855f04181bca1a1b',
'key': b'fb74baf628d43892020d803614f91f29',
'length': 11,
'pretty': 'Healthy Toad'}

{'hash': b'a3e76457c0de70a153e82067845f1527',
'key': b'769adf0f307181e4ab2bc4c1b991cdc6',
'length': 11,
'pretty': 'Amethyst Cod'}

Bequeath unwanted MUIDs to a worthy statistician.

Applications

See the video at https://vimeo.com/397352413 for some motivation.

We hope you have an application that can benefit from one less join.

Implementation decisions

We welcome thoughtful suggestions at https://github.com/microprediction/muid/issues

Choice of hash

We truncate the output of hashlib.sha256

Readable hex

Hex	Human	Hex	HUman	Hex	Human
1	l	5	s	9	g
2	z	6	h	0	o
3	m	7	t
4	y	8	x

Miscellaneous

Collisions

MUID collision requires approximately the same computational capacity as UUID collision or more.

Stupid dog trick

https://vimeo.com/396819347