Re: GUID algorithm

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• From: Andreas Bogk <andreas@andreas.org>
• Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:15:01 -0400 (EDT)
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"Scott McKay" <swm@mediaone.net> writes:

> The serial number/IP address, well, that might be a bit tougher, but I
> don't see how you can be unique across machines unless you use something
> like this.

Well, just generate one randomly. The probability of a collision is
marginal, given a long enough random string.

Andreas

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