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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Non-unique UIDs
From:       Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-09-26 14:52:53
Message-ID: 200409261652.53953.schumacher () kde ! org
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On Sunday 26 September 2004 01:03, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> On Saturday 25 September 2004 23:45, Szombathelyi György wrote:
> > Here's a document which describes it:
> > http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/webdav/uuid-guid/draft-leach-uuids-
> >guids-01 .txt
>
> Yeah, thanks. The rfc is also quite verbose on how one can create
> globally unique IDs. The issues I have with these methods is that
> they include the exact time information, and some information on the
> machine where the incidence was created. Both can lead to significant
> trouble.

The RFC is an interesting read, but what's wrong with the current method 
of creating unique IDs? Taking a random string of a length which makes 
it reasonably improbable that the same string is created twice should 
be good enough. We don't have to be perfect here.

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Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>
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