I mean, that sounds sorta like JWTs which are used commonly enough for this type of thing

why would you need to salt long random strings?

also if you salt them you have to have an id too so you can look up who’s api key it is. otherwise you can just look up the key hash to get everything

why would you need to salt long random strings?

also if you salt them you have to have an id too so you can look up who’s api key it is. otherwise you can just look up the key hash to get everything

things that store it as word size for alignment purposes (most common afaik), things that pack multiple books into one byte (normally only things like bool sequences/structs), etc