On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 16:53 +0200, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote: > (Only reason I gave this some thought was because I few days ago wanted > unique > IDs traceable to a single server, without having to use statically assigned
Look at UUID. That is what it is for. > identifiers. The purely security implications of adding unique IDs to qpsmtpd > without them possibly being less unique in a multi-mx setup seems quite > neglectable; but still easily avoidable... ) IIRC, it uses TAI plus MAC address (MAC address is not unique but it is supposed to be) plus some other stuff. It is used for subversion repository IDs ... there are about 5 flavours (including microsoft ;-). During this discussion, someone referenced an implementation able to provide 10M unique IDs per second. -- --gh
