The idea behind "security thorough obscurity" is that even if the adversary knows everything about your setup *except the secret keys*, you should be secure. Se

The idea behind "security thorough obscurity" is that even if the adversary knows everything about your setup *except the secret keys*, you should be secure. Security through obscurity is any method of protection other than the secret key, like for example: * serving ssh on a random high port * using a custom secret encryption algorithm * hosting an unauthenticated service on a secret subdomain in hope nobody will find out * or with a long directory name Some security thorough obscurity is OK (for example high ports or port knocking help buy time when protecting from a zeroday on the service). It's just that relying only on the security thorough obscurity is bad. In this case, I wouldn't call URLs with embedded key security through obscurity, just a poor key management.