Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 16:17:37 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: "TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG)" <matthew.temple@lexis-nexis.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "MITZKA, JOHN (LNG)" <JOHN.MITZKA@lexis-nexis.com> Subject: Re: uuidgen or other GUID-generating utility Message-ID: <20000524161737.A2307@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <27E4B476932BD211945B00805FE67AF5089DE1E3@lnxdayexch05.lexis-nexis.com>; from "TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG)" on Wed May 24 16:16:24 GMT 2000 References: <27E4B476932BD211945B00805FE67AF5089DE1E3@lnxdayexch05.lexis-nexis.com>
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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. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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