ANN: uid.py 1.0.2 -- Configurable unique ID generation

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Mon May 24 01:53:56 EDT 2004


Tim Roberts wrote:

> Maybe I'm being ridiculous, but intuitively, this makes me
> uncomfortable.
> If one has a "unique ID" generator, isn't it likely that any change to
> its
> configuration is only going to serve to reduce the "uniqueness"?

Only if the chances of a collision are increased.  Since there are no
known MD5 (much less SHA) hash collisions, that does not seem worth
worrying about.

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