by pointing out that the UUID is "predictable" are you saying that using it
for security purposes is not recommended?
Brad Tumy
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Arnold - ASP [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 9:59 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: CreateUUID()
> Does anyone on this list rely on CreateUUID() for creating a completely
> unique identifier? Anyone know how it compares in effectiveness to using
> uniqueidentifier and making it a row GUID in SQL?
As long as you don't pass the UUID to the user and rely on that, then
they're fine - they're also "predictable" as they increment
Philip Arnold
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