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I just commented the same thing. I can't imagine most applications would want to leak time information in their identifiers but these undoubtedly will be used most placed out of convenience. In a year or so we'll read about an attack and everyone will migrate back to v4 or have to maintain a cryptographic identifier in addition to their temporal identifier.



Most application may not want it, but will it hurt them?

I mean this is a similar concern to sequential IDs: many apps do not want to leak them, and in some cases it might cause issues, but in general it doesn't matter.




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