Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.spitfire.i.gajendra.net!not-for-mail From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) Newsgroups: alt.os.development Subject: Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 20:08:20 -0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 20:08:20 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="spitfire.i.gajendra.net:166.84.136.80"; logging-data="9817"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) Xref: csiph.com alt.os.development:18646 In article , wolfgang kern wrote: >On 11/02/2024 02:11, Dan Cross wrote: >> In article , >> wolfgang kern wrote: >>> On 10/02/2024 05:45, Alexei A. Frounze wrote: >>>> On Friday, February 9, 2024 at 8:23:07 PM UTC-8, wolfgang kern wrote: >>>>> how could I make sure [GUID]'s globally unique then ? >>>> >>>> Probability of collision is expected to be low enough to treat the number unique in practice. >>>> See >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier >>>> and specifically >>>> ITU-T Rec. X.667 or RFC 4122 >>> >>> thanks a lot Alex, I now can add this link to my GPT-docs >>> >>> https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/asn1/Pages/UUID/uuids.aspx >>> >>> why was it that hard to get this info :) >> >> ...it's not? I mean, did you try to look it up? > >of course I did. >I found several hundreds sites who mentioned globally unique ID and only >two showed a couple of 16 byte values but nothing what I searched for. >And replies except the one from Alex missed to tell that I can download >a never used new GUID. He literally linked you to Wikipedia. Didn't you search for "how to generate a UUID"? - Dan C.