Nov 15, 2008 · UUID is the same as GUID (Microsoft) and is part of the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), standardized by the Open Software Foundation (OSF). As mentioned, they are …

Aug 6, 2022 · The uuid module provides immutable UUID objects (the UUID class) and the functions uuid1(), uuid3(), uuid4(), uuid5() for generating version 1, 3, 4, and 5 UUIDs as specified in RFC …

May 7, 2019 · How do I create GUIDs (globally-unique identifiers) in JavaScript? The GUID / UUID should be at least 32 characters and should stay in the ASCII range to avoid trouble when passing …

Nov 10, 2009 · The OSSP uuid tool can decode UUIDs of all versions. On Debian-based Linux systems you can use apt-get install uuid to install it; for other distributions, the package name might be …

Oct 29, 2008 · Reserved, Microsoft Corporation backward compatibility Reserved for future definition. According to RFC 4122, all UUID variants are "real UUIDs", then all GUIDs are real UUIDs. To the …

Dec 3, 2013 · Which version of the UUID should you use? I saw a lot of threads explaining what each version entails, but I am having trouble figuring out what's best for what applications.

Jul 21, 2009 · Version 4 is the random number UUID. There's six fixed bits and the rest of the UUID is 122-bits of randomness. See Wikipedia or other analysis that describe how very unlikely a duplicate …

Here is an alternative approach to UUID. Though the chance of collision is infinitesimal UUID doesn't guarantee uniqueness. To guarantee the uniqueness you may want to use compound key as …

UUID is a good candidate but UUID.randomUUID().toString() generates stuff like 44e128a5-ac7a-4c9a-be4c-224b6bf81b20 which is good, but I would prefer dash-less string. I'm looking for an efficient …

The generated type 3 or type 5 UUID holds a (partial) hash of the namespace id and name-within-namespace (key). It no more holds the namespace UUID than does a message MAC hold the …