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ID Obfuscation/Hashing Transformer for Go 
There are many times when you want to generate obfuscated ids. This package utilizes Knuth's Hashing Algorithm to transform your internal ids into another number to hide it from the general public.
An example may be your database table. You may have a primary key that points to a particular customer. For security reasons you don't want to expose that id to the outside world. That is exactly where this package becomes handy.
Optimus encodes your internal id to a number that is safe to expose. Finally it can decode that number back so you know which internal id it refers to.
Installation
go get -u github.com/pjebs/optimus-go
Usage
Step 1
- Find or Calculate a PRIME number from somewhere. It must be smaller than
2147483647(MAXID) - Calculate the Mod Inverse of the Prime number such that
(PRIME * INVERSE) & MAXID == 1 - Generate a Pure Random Integer less than
2147483647(MAXID).
You can use the built-in generator.GenerateSeed() function to generate all 3 required parameters if you want.
Step 2
package hello
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/pjebs/optimus-go"
)
o := optimus.New(1580030173, 59260789, 1163945558) // Prime Number: 1580030173, Mod Inverse: 59260789, Pure Random Number: 1163945558
new_id := o.Encode(15) // internal id of 15 being transformed to 1103647397
orig_id := o.Decode(1103647397) // Returns 15 back
Please note that in order for Optimus to transform the id back to the original, all 3 numbers of the constructor must be consistent. You will need to store it somewhere after generation and usage.
Methods
type Optimus struct {
prime uint64
modInverse uint64
random uint64
}
func New(prime uint64, modInverse uint64, random uint64) Optimus
New returns an Optimus struct that can be used to encode and decode integers.
A common use case is for obfuscating internal ids of database primary keys.
It is imperative that you keep a record of prime, modInverse and random so that
you can decode an encoded integer correctly. random must be an integer less than MAX_INT.
WARNING: The function panics if prime is not a valid prime. It does a probability-based prime test using the MILLER-RABIN algorithm.
CAUTION: DO NOT DIVULGE prime, modInverse and random!
func NewCalculated(prime uint64, random uint64) Optimus
NewCalculated returns an Optimus struct that can be used to encode and decode integers.
random must be an integer less than MAX_INT.
It automatically calculates prime's mod inverse and then calls New.
func (o Optimus) Encode(n uint64) uint64
Encode is used to encode n using Knuth's hashing algorithm.
func (o Optimus) Decode(n uint64) uint64
Decode is used to decode n back to the original. It will only decode correctly if the Optimus struct is consistent with what was used to encode n.
func (o Optimus) Prime() uint64
Prime returns the associated prime.
CAUTION: DO NOT DIVULGE THIS NUMBER!
func (o Optimus) ModInverse() uint64
ModInverse returns the associated mod inverse.
CAUTION: DO NOT DIVULGE THIS NUMBER!
func (o Optimus) Random() uint64
Random returns the associated random integer.
CAUTION: DO NOT DIVULGE THIS NUMBER!
func ModInverse(n int64) uint64
ModInverse returns the modular inverse of a given prime number.
The modular inverse is defined such that (PRIME * MODULAR_INVERSE) & (MAX_INT_VALUE) = 1.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_multiplicative_inverse
NOTE: prime is assumed to be a valid prime. If prime is outside the bounds of an int64, then the function panics as it can not calculate the mod inverse.
func generator.GenerateSeed() (Optimus, error)
GenerateSeed will generate a valid optimus object which can be used for encoding and decoding values.
See http://godoc.org/github.com/pjebs/optimus-go/generator#GenerateSeed for details on how to use it.
Alternatives
There is the hashids package which is very popular. Out of the box, it produces obfuscated ids that can contain any number of characters.
However:
- Knuth's algorithm is 127 times faster in benchmarks
- Hashids produce strings that contain characters other than just numbers.
- If you were to modify the code (since the default minimum alphabet size is 16 characters) to allow only characters (0-9), it removes the first and last numbers to use as separators.
- If the character '0' by coincidence comes out at the front of the obfuscated id, then you can't convert it to an integer when you store it. An integer will remove the leading zero but you need it to decode the number back to the original id (since hashid deals with strings and not numbers).
Inspiration
This package is based on the PHP library by jenssegers.
Final Notes
If you found this package useful, please Star it on github. Feel free to fork and/or provide pull requests. Any bug reports will be warmly received.
© 2014-20 PJ Engineering and Business Solutions Pty. Ltd.
Documentation
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Index ¶
Constants ¶
const ( // MILLER_RABIN is used to configure the ProbablyPrime function // which is used to verify prime numbers. // // See: https://golang.org/pkg/math/big/#Int.ProbablyPrime MILLER_RABIN = 20 )
Variables ¶
var ( // MAX_INT represents the upper bound. // It should be 2^N. // It is set by default to the upper bound of an int32 // to interface with https://github.com/jenssegers/optimus MAX_INT = uint64(math.MaxInt32) // 2,147,483,647 )
Functions ¶
func GenerateRandom ¶
func GenerateRandom() uint64
GenerateRandom generates a cryptographically secure random number. As currently implemented, it will return a number in the int64 range.
func ModInverse ¶
ModInverse returns the modular inverse of a given prime number. The modular inverse is defined such that (PRIME * MODULAR_INVERSE) & (MAX_INT_VALUE) = 1.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_multiplicative_inverse
NOTE: prime is assumed to be a valid prime. If prime is outside the bounds of an int64, then the function panics as it can not calculate the mod inverse.
Types ¶
type Optimus ¶
type Optimus struct {
// contains filtered or unexported fields
}
Optimus is used to encode and decode integers using Knuth's Hashing Algorithm.
func New ¶
New returns an Optimus struct that can be used to encode and decode integers. A common use case is for obfuscating internal ids of database primary keys. It is imperative that you keep a record of prime, modInverse and random so that you can decode an encoded integer correctly. random must be an integer less than MAX_INT.
WARNING: The function panics if prime is not a valid prime. It does a probability-based prime test using the MILLER-RABIN algorithm.
CAUTION: DO NOT DIVULGE prime, modInverse and random!
func NewCalculated ¶
NewCalculated returns an Optimus struct that can be used to encode and decode integers. random must be an integer less than MAX_INT. It automatically calculates prime's mod inverse and then calls New.
func (Optimus) Decode ¶
Decode is used to decode n back to the original. It will only decode correctly if the Optimus struct is consistent with what was used to encode n.
func (Optimus) ModInverse ¶
ModInverse returns the associated mod inverse.
CAUTION: DO NOT DIVULGE THIS NUMBER!
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