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Resistant might be a strong word. I can see it only has E, A and Y as vowels which maybe helps a little for English as long as you're not the SATAN himself.

It's also trivially easy to reroll ids until they don't contain a swear.

Collecting the dictionary of all swear words for all languages and their dialects might be less trivial. Keeping it up to date would probably take an institute worth of researchers.

And there's no "forward secrecy" - if a normal word becomes a swear, then it's often hard to go through and change all uuids.

Which is why the standard has been base16 (or base10) for so long.

But what if deadbeef becomes a swear?

/s… but only halfway

Modi is out of control.

They did naz1 that coming.

What's more, unlike b58, it's case insensitive.

I usually favour b32 for IDs. There's also word encodings, but frankly those have more lewd combinations than they don't to a mind such as mine.

> resistant to swear words

No it's not.

Edit: downvoters, a tame example is 0x72b5473d5a567200.

I have no idea what that is supposed to say.

You take that hex and turn it into Crockford32 and it says eatmefatass00.