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I have an array of objects in a JSON file. The objects don't have unique ids so I need to create either a unique id, or a unique string.

I'm using javascript, and I'm little rusty on my bit arithmetic.

Ultimately, my goal is to convert a UInt8Array into 11-bit numbers for use with a bip39 wordlist for converting a libsodium private box key to a mnemonic (I'm building a small p2p-ish chat app).

So, my thought process is:

1. Uint8Array is returned from libsodium.crypto_box_keypair()
2. Convert Uint8Array into a 256bit (boolean) array
3. divide the 256bit array into 11bit buckets (2d array: ~24 x 11bits)
4. convert each 11bit array to a base 10 number (between 0 and 2047)

Steps 2, 3, and 4 can be combined into the same loop.

The goal of all this is to efficiently convert from a Uint8Array to an array of 11bit numbers (efficient for the computer -- this hasn't been efficient for myself).

I have this at the moment, but it isn't quite right, and feels somewhat hacky (just from steps 2 and 3, where I try to create the 11bit buckets)