From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Generating identifiers similar to UUIDs but without dashes
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 08:40:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c7463786-82f1-01c8-7f47-e784f2602209@web.de> (raw)
Hello,
The file “/proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid” provides a bit of useful data.
The formal definition of the string representation for universally unique
identifiers requires the use of four dashes for the concatenation of fields.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122#page-4
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24481801/is-uuid-without-dashes-hyphens-valid#answer-24484051
Now I am looking again for possibilities to generate reasonably unique
identifiers also without these dashes.
Can any data processing benefit from the avoidance of such extra characters?
Regards,
Markus
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