[issue41552] uuid.uuid1() on certain Macs does not generate unique IDs

2020-08-14 Thread Terry Greeniaus
Terry Greeniaus added the comment: xoring does not guarantee uniqueness and has a good chance of discarding it, so it seems like a bad idea to me. Suppose I have exactly two adapters with MAC addresses 0 and 3. Suppose you have exactly two adapters with MAC addresses 1 and 2. We'll bot

[issue41552] uuid.uuid1() on macOS doesn't generate unique IDs

2020-08-14 Thread Terry Greeniaus
New submission from Terry Greeniaus : I'm using Python 3.8.5 on a 2016 MacBook Pro running macOS Catalina 10.15.3. This model has a touch bar and macOS communicates with the touch bar via a dedicated "iBridge" network interface. The iBridge network interface uses a fixed M