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He assumes that the UUIDs are independent (selected independently uniformly at random). They are not. Trust me, it's very, very hard to get this kind of 'pure'
by Kenji 12y ago
He assumes that the UUIDs are independent (selected independently uniformly at random). They are not. Trust me, it's very, very hard to get this kind of 'pure' randomness on computers. No matter what randomness you use, you will have some correlation and your odds to get different UUIDs drop rapidly.
- jacques_chester 12y agoThen use v5 UUIDs. Or /dev/urandom, which seeds a PRNG with hardware-sourced randomness.
- lmm 12y agoOn the contrary, there is such a thing as a CSPRNG, and many of them exist.
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