[Kroupware] LDAP address book schema suggestion

Tobias Koenig kroupware@mail.kde.org
Sun, 29 Sep 2002 22:11:01 +0200


On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 05:22:40PM +0200, Martin Konold wrote:
> On Sunday 29 September 2002 01:26 pm, Tobias Koenig wrote:
> Hi Tobias,
Hi Martin,

> > <uid>, <address-uid> and <phone-uid> are unique identifiers that consist
> > of a random string with a length of 9 characters.
> > (e.g. that is returned by KApplication::randomString())
> 
> do you think that 9 characters are enough?
Every character can be [A-Za-z0-9], that means there are 62^9 possebilities.
There can be collisions with a possebility of 1:(62^9)/2
Is this enough?

We could also use a 15 character long uid.

Ciao,
Tobias
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