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With a sufficiently long file name, it would be hard to brute force get files. But with the example you gave (ucv0zmcg), that may be open to brute forcing. Supposing the method of jumbling the file names was secure and you added some extra data to make the jumbled data (encrypted, hopefully) long, then it may make it harder for people to randomly get files.

There are better (more secure) ways, but that seems like one potential advantage. Another "advantage" would be that the encrypted data may be base64 encoded or something, so you don't have to worry about funky characters being in the URL. You could just do the base64 encoding, but hey you wanted advantages so that's one.

Also, it makes it harder for somebody to get random files on the server. Though, a better way to do that would be to associate an ID to each file path and use that ID in the URL to look up the file. That way, you only serve up files that have been explicitly allowed by the database.

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