Introduction to Petname Systems (skyhunter.com)
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In the simple case, a nickname has a one-to-many mapping to keys The name John Smith is obviously a nickname: there are many John Smiths.Other nicknames produce the illusion of being globally unique: the name Marc Stiegler appears to be globally unique at the time of this writing. But there is no security property in this accident of global uniqueness. The uniqueness of the name Marc Stiegler would change quite quickly if, through the mysterious forces of human whimsy, the name suddenly became desirable.
