Re: Need short GUID for file identifiers

From: Samuel Paik (sam_at_paiks.org)
Date: 12/14/03 

Date: 14 Dec 2003 01:31:12 -0800

"Rickey Braddam" <sharedsecrets@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Thank you, Michael. Another requirement that apparently I didn't make clear is
> that there can't be a collision with files on a remote machine, perhaps on the
> Internet.

If the actual requirement is there CAN NOT EVER be a collision, then
none of this hashing stuff works for you.

Look into the UUID specification, the people who developed it spent
time looking into the issues.

Sam

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