Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:20:46 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Time-based RFC 4122 UUID generator |
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On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:58:38 +0100 Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> wrote:
> David Schwartz wrote: > > Any UUID generator that can produce duplicate UUIDs with probability > > significantly less than purely random UUIDs is so badly broken that it > > should not ever be used. Anyone who finds such a UUID generator should > > immediately either fix it or throw it on the junk heap. > > That's what my patch is about: Solve the problem at it's root.
Time based is not neccessarily random, but the kernel one is also clearly not random either.
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