Image Unique Identifier
John M McIntosh
johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Tue Aug 22 23:22:35 UTC 2006
Ok, well first the squeak VM returns a UUID if that support is in the
VM to fetch it from the host operating system
If it is not found then we generate a type of UUID based on the
squeak random number generator with a reset very N usages.
However I can't speak for how random that would be, since I don't
believe it's considered a cryptographic level random number generator.
For platforms that support getting the UUID from the host operating
system the system *might* have done a one-way hash on
the UUID. How valid is that? You would have to get the vendors to
admit what they are doing.
On 22-Aug-06, at 4:14 PM, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
> I understand the original implementation of UUID used information
> from the
> computer but people said this was a bad thing since data created
> from a
> computer could be traced back to that computer. I don't see that
> in this
> UUID and I'm not sure of our implementation. If it is based on SHA
> then the
> distribution should be very close to random meaning 3/5th's. If it
> is the
> old UUID where the distribution was wider on the beginning bits
> then I'd say
> you have a larger amount of uniqueness in the first 16 of 25 bits,
> although
> guaranteed uniqueness came from the computer id so who knows.
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