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Yes, vendor-specific data can be 100% random.
by pclmulqdq 8mo ago
Yes, vendor-specific data can be 100% random.
- 8organicbits 8mo agoIt can be, but you should prefer UUIDv4 if you do that. One problem is that UUIDv8 does not promise uniqueness. > UUIDv8's uniqueness will be implementation specific and MUST NOT be assumed. Here's a spec compliant UUIDv8 implementation I made that doesn't produce unique IDs: https://github.com/robalexdev/uuidv8-xkcd-221 https://github.com/robalexdev/uuidv8-xkcd-221 So, given a spec-compliant UUIDv4 you can assume it is unique, but you'd need out-of-band information to make the same assumption about a UUIDv8. I wrote much more in a blog post: https://alexsci.com/blog/uuid-oops/ https://alexsci.com/blog/uuid-oops/