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XML-proof UIDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Sun Nov 16 07:49:07 2003
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:52:52 +0100
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
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Does anyone have robust code to generate globally unique IDs which won't break XML parsing,
and work on several platforms?
I was thinking of using an entropy pool to seed a cryptographic PRNG, used to
generate a sequence of SHA-1 hashes, dumped to an XML-armored representation.
Thanks.
-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a>
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