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What's wrong with generating a random MD5 and living with the fact that you're going to be 32 chars long? That's a standard practice. It's not till you start to hit 2048 characters that you run into an IE bug, so use a few characters. It's not even your space you're wasting! :-)

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Re: Compressing a string, but leaving it as a string
by hacker (Priest) on Mar 11, 2005 at 21:02 UTC
    "What's wrong with generating a random MD5 and living with the fact that you're going to be 32 chars long?"

    A random MD5 doesn't help, because I can't take that MD5 string and reverse it back to the original tokens.

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      Use the MD5 as a key into a DB file on the server side that has the real data saved using Storable or YAML.

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