From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 2 8:46:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from teapot28.domain6.bigpond.com (teapot28.domain6.bigpond.com [139.134.5.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C0AF37B76F for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 08:46:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from port@iname.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by teapot28.domain6.bigpond.com (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id ba386569 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 01:35:02 +1000 Received: from DKBH-T-003-p-126-125.tmns.net.au ([139.134.126.125]) by mail6.bigpond.com (Claudes-Polyunsaturated-MailRouter V2.7e 11/1278703); 03 Jun 2000 01:34:57 From: "Peter Ortner" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Cc: "MITZKA, JOHN (LNG)" , "TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG)" , "Dan Nelson" Subject: RE: uuidgen or other GUID-generating utility Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 01:34:06 +1000 Message-ID: <001101bfcca7$fcbfdba0$0b00a8c0@port.slow> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2120.0 In-Reply-To: <20000524161737.A2307@dan.emsphone.com> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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