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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] [plan9mod] Query regarding venti scores
Date: Fri,  6 Feb 2009 10:28:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80b6d427d11267d6311d222fee1b5af1@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <509071940902060610p44067dfaue4a0f3ede5fbb5d9@mail.gmail.com>

> that doesn't directly address their suitability as UUIDs. it seems
> like an odd choice to me (certainly it's an expensive way of
> generating them), although i guess it depends what your application
> is.

sha-1 is a standard uuid format.  since a uuid is 16 bytes and
sha-1 is 20, there should be plenty of room in there.  here's the
fully legal url:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUID#Version_5_.28SHA-1_hash.29

- erik



      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-06 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-06  9:49 anoop.anoop
2009-02-06 10:17 ` 23hiro
2009-02-06 14:10   ` Anthony Sorace
2009-02-06 15:28     ` erik quanstrom [this message]

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