Re: Creating a Unique Key

2002-03-28 Thread Tagore Smith
Nikola Janceski wrote: > Uh... exactly what are you going to be using it for? > You might want to check out the function call crypt() in the perlfunc pages. > > > -Original Message- > > From: Gregory Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 2:30 PM > > To:

Re: Creating a Unique Key

2002-03-28 Thread Chas Owens
uuidgen can create a nearly 100% unique key, but if the attackers has access to the machine it was generated on and knowledge of the approximate time the key was generated then it is fairly easy to guess/reverse engineer the key. You may want to look into using a very large prime number or some s

RE: Creating a Unique Key

2002-03-28 Thread Nikola Janceski
Uh... exactly what are you going to be using it for? You might want to check out the function call crypt() in the perlfunc pages. > -Original Message- > From: Gregory Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 2:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Creating a