Are the data protected if they are rendered in backend workflows?

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Regarding alternative ways of creating unique keys, there have been a lot of posts on this that suggest using “calculate random string”. I’m not sure if this will meet your use case exactly but is worth checking out:

Generate random combination of letters and numbers fith fixed length

What I am trying to build is a referral link to our app. I was thinking that I might want to incorporate something personal, like a first name. Or possibly, just the first 3 letters of a name. The name should be pretty easy, just point to the ‘thing’ in the database. What about restricting the length to just 3 letters? Or possibly the first letter of the first name +3 letters of the last + random 5 digit string. Something like: jdoe532X9A4. Sure you can. Remember you can use multiple expre…