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Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT

From cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
Newsgroups alt.os.development
Subject Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT
Date 2024-02-10 19:21 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID <uq8icc$lmq$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink)
References <uofhej$3hlj6$1@dont-email.me> <uq5ufs$2ov1f$1@dont-email.me> <V1wxN.354401$xHn7.98928@fx14.iad> <uq6tsa$31g7g$3@dont-email.me>

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In article <uq6tsa$31g7g$3@dont-email.me>,
wolfgang kern  <nowhere@never.at> wrote:
>On 09/02/2024 21:37, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>> wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> writes:
>>> ...
>>>>> QUESTIONS still are:  what should I enter into
>>>>> 1. the 64 bit Disk GUID (also referred as UUID on UNIXes)?
>>>> Any globally unique 64-bit value.
>
>>> can this perhaps be found in the IDENTIFY-DEVICE block?
>
>> no.
>
>> Each one is unique.  It's generated from random data when
>> each GPT is first created.   It's different in every GPT
>> (thus every disk on every system in the universe).  It
>> uniquely identifies the media.
>
>I'm totally confused yet,
>where do these numbers come from and how to get them ?

They are random numbers.  You make them up, in software, or
taking from some kind of entropy source.

	- Dan C.

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UEFI GPT wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2024-01-20 05:16 +0100
  Re: UEFI GPT Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2024-01-20 23:44 +0800
    Re: UEFI GPT wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2024-01-21 00:56 +0100
      Re: UEFI GPT Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2024-01-21 10:04 +0800
  Re: UEFI GPT wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2024-01-27 09:50 +0100
    Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2024-02-09 15:31 +0100
      Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2024-02-09 16:54 +0100
        Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2024-02-09 20:08 +0100
          Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2024-02-09 22:03 +0100
            Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2024-02-10 05:16 +0100
              Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2024-02-10 09:11 +0100
          Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2024-02-13 13:57 +0800
            Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2024-02-13 08:40 +0100
              Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2024-02-13 08:45 +0100
      Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-02-09 15:59 +0000
        Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2024-02-09 20:12 +0100
          Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2024-02-09 20:30 +0100
            Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-02-09 20:37 +0000
              Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2024-02-10 05:25 +0100
                Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2024-02-10 19:21 +0000
                Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2024-02-11 02:00 +0100
          Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-02-09 20:34 +0000
            Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2024-02-10 05:23 +0100
              Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT "Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfrunews@gmail.com> - 2024-02-09 20:45 -0800
                Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2024-02-10 08:59 +0100
                Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2024-02-11 01:11 +0000
                Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2024-02-11 07:04 +0100
                Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2024-02-11 20:08 +0000
                Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2024-02-11 22:03 +0100
                Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT Andy Valencia <vandys@vsta.org> - 2024-02-11 14:38 -0800
                Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2024-02-12 01:48 +0100
      Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT JJ <jj4public@outlook.com> - 2024-02-10 20:10 +0700
        Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2024-02-10 17:05 +0100
        Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> - 2024-02-14 06:37 +0100

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