Fun Project: xTalk GUID Generator

[Mark Smith]

I think the spec has a 'type 4' which uses a pseudo-random number  
instead of the MAC address, and the UUIDs generated here (mac OS  
10.4.7) by uuidgen seem to be of this type :

D9201B74-B33E-4A72-8C06-3B33781F3396

where the first digit of the 3rd group indicates the type.

Best,

Mark

On 1 Dec 2006, at 16:56, Mark Wieder wrote:

>
> but I second Dar's concern over the "bona-fide" qualifier. Microsoft's
> implementation has been criticized as being unsecure - the MAC id can
> still be identified from the guid, and therefore documents can be
> trace to their owners - that's how the writer of the Melissa virus was
> found. The "standard" way of generating a guid involves the MAC id and
> a time string - are you looking for something more secure than that?
>
> -- 
> -Mark Wieder
>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>
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