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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 2024-02-11 20:08 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID <uqb9fk$9ip$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink)
References <uofhej$3hlj6$1@dont-email.me> <uq7ac6$3369l$1@dont-email.me> <uq96ss$cqi$1@reader1.panix.com> <uq9o1p$j2ln$1@dont-email.me>

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In article <uq9o1p$j2ln$1@dont-email.me>,
wolfgang kern  <nowhere@never.at> wrote:
>On 11/02/2024 02:11, Dan Cross wrote:
>> In article <uq7ac6$3369l$1@dont-email.me>,
>> wolfgang kern  <nowhere@never.at> 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.

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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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