Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 01:34:06 +1000 From: "Peter Ortner" <port@iname.com> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "MITZKA, JOHN (LNG)" <JOHN.MITZKA@lexis-nexis.com>, "TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG)" <matthew.temple@lexis-nexis.com>, "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@emsphone.com> Subject: RE: uuidgen or other GUID-generating utility Message-ID: <001101bfcca7$fcbfdba0$0b00a8c0@port.slow> In-Reply-To: <20000524161737.A2307@dan.emsphone.com>
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If you want truly random generation, try the system at http://lavarand.sgi.com :) > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dan Nelson > Sent: Thursday, 25 May 2000 7:18 AM > To: TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG) > Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'; MITZKA, JOHN (LNG) > Subject: Re: uuidgen or other GUID-generating utility > > > In the last episode (May 24), TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG) said: > > Clearly, someone wanting to generate a true universally unique > > identifier (someone like myself, for instance) would be using the > > time-based option of a Linux uuidgen. It is this type of > > securely-generated UUID that I am interested in. Does anyone on this > > list know if FreeBSD has such a utility/libraries, or am I simply > > doomed to be subjected to more of Mr. Nelson's tangental smarty-pants > > replies about jot random number generation? > > nyah nyah :) > > No, FreBSD doesn't have a program to pull the ethernet address and > print a guid formatted like Linux's "uuidgen -t". I don't imagine that > the program would be hard to port to FreeBSD, though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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