Here is a CFLOOP of 5 UUIDs built using CreateUUID():
6505F7E0-D2E1-11D4-B17000E0295FC366
6505F7E1-D2E1-11D4-B17000E0295FC366
6505F7E2-D2E1-11D4-B17000E0295FC366
6505F7E3-D2E1-11D4-B17000E0295FC366
6505F7E4-D2E1-11D4-B17000E0295FC366
Care to guess what the sixth run of CFLOOP produced?
Now, here is a CFLOOP of 5 UUIDs using CF_UUID:
09776555-09DA-E1DA-E1DA-D81ECBA988E8F77F
BF662FEC-A7C6-AE08-9E08-9E087421FE4C2BA2
6CA0A744-44F4-44F4-3B37-3B370B8854A18EF6
09DE61D9-0923-E123-E123-D876C51CB8D6C329
CF0D2A51-A70D-AE61-9E61-9E64A1B72F4B176E
Care to take a crack at the sixth iteration of the CFLOOP? Hah!
Now, consider the following: If you stuff a UUID into a URL as a security
token for selecting user sessions, shopping carts, or whatever, wouldn't you
like to know that somebody is going to have to do a LOT of work before they
get lucky with a URL hack?
Alan McCollough
Web Programmer
Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer
Alaska Native Medical Center
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Voldengen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 11:11 AM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: inserting your own UUID into a db table
>
> Why does it matter if only three or so characters of a UUID
> are unique? As long as they are indeed unique, who cares?
>
>
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