how secure is windows GUID generation?

From: Andy Fish (ajfish_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 08/17/05 

Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:49:11 GMT

Hi all,

Anyone know how secure (i.e. random) the GUID generation in windows is? - I
have heard that it's quite computationally expensive to generate one, which
would imply to me that they are fairly random.

TIA

Andy

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