I am using SSL for my web application. Would using an uniqueidentifier as the primary key for sensitive data add any extra security or would it just slow things down?
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I am using SSL for my web application. Would using an uniqueidentifier as the primary key for sensitive data add any extra security or would it just slow things down?
Perhaps, in the same way that a cardboard lock is more secure than a paper lock.
If you are using security by obscurity, that is the only thing preventing someone from seeing something they shouldn’t is that they don’t know a primary key value, then yes. it adds a little bit of security.
That said, your efforts would be much better applied to locking down the data through affirmative means instead of relying on the user not guessing an ID. Security by obscurity is especially vulnerable to sniffing attacks.