GUIDs

[Ivan R. Judson]

Interesting, I was going to get rid of the requirement for the crypto stuff
and just use the built-in python random number generator stuff.  What
disqualifies the built-in random number generator? The two applications I
can think of: unique Id's and the address allocator don't seem to require
cryptographically strong randomness, am I missing something?

--Ivan

PS -- besides if you read over the snippet below it makes your eyes cross.
Those two definitions of random are either the same or not, but it's not
clear from the mail :-)

>  > A globally-unique identifier made up of time and ip and 3
> random digits:
>
> This might be unique, but it's definitely not random. There