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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?"

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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Re^2: Compressing a string, but leaving it as a string
by Fletch (Bishop) on Mar 11, 2005 at 23:47 UTC

    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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