similar sets of accounts

Josh Sled jsled at asynchronous.org
Tue May 6 10:59:50 EDT 2008


Jannick Asmus <jannick.news at gmail.com> writes:
> Are the fresh GUIDs created by randomization or is something codes in them?
> Or what is behind it?

GUIDs are the hex representation of a forward-chained MD5 hash of a buffer
that's seeded with content from /dev/urandom (or the platform's equivalent).
They're totally random.

-- 
...jsled
http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo ${a}@${b}
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