RE: [id] UUID update

2004-03-05 Thread Tim Reilly
I would attribute the cryptographic quality reference in section 4 as just referring to randomization. Making the PRNG pluggable might be a good compromise solution. Phil I think that sounds good, for the version 4 (random bytes) uuid (I think that's what you meant? - version 1 uses MD5 of

Re: [id] UUID update

2004-03-04 Thread Phil Steitz
Tim Reilly wrote: Phil Steitz wrote: I imagine performance tests of anything using SecureRandom (VersionFourGenerator, and InMemoryStateImpl) may be dismal due to initialization. Not just initialization. The calls are also *much* slower than Random. I think I did a static reference to the

RE: [id] UUID update

2004-03-04 Thread Phil Steitz
--- Tim Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Phil, Why, btw, did you think that we needed to use SecureRandom? Is there any expectation in the spec that the random data will be cryptographically secure? Quoting http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mealling-uuid-urn-02.txt

RE: [id] UUID update

2004-03-03 Thread Marc Slemko
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Adkins Kendall wrote: Here is a UID Generator we are using. Part of the UID contains the hash of a final static object instance. In this way, while a JVM is up you are assured no other objects can occupy the same memory address. We have had no difficulty with it under

RE: [id] UUID update

2004-03-03 Thread Adkins Kendall
And I thought I was helping! Thanks. :) -Original Message- From: Marc Slemko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:27 PM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: RE: [id] UUID update On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Adkins Kendall wrote: Here is a UID Generator we

Re: [id] UUID update

2004-03-03 Thread Phil Steitz
Adkins Kendall wrote: Hmm. I guess I can't send attachments. Is there a better way to share source code? You can add file attachments to Bugzilla tickets that you can create here: http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Commons For [id], select Sandbox as the Component or add

RE: [id] UUID update

2004-03-03 Thread Tim Reilly
Phil Steitz wrote: ... than updating the Apache license to 2.0. This is a good start. We need to get a better feel for stability / performance and some more eyeballs on this code, so I thought it best to get it into CVS now, even if we decide to refactor / repackage down the road. Thanks for

RE: [id] UUID update

2004-03-01 Thread Tim Reilly
I will look at this stuff carefully this weekend, but one thing that jumped out at me from your post above was that the global lock issue might be avoidable by putting more into the node identifier, i.e., build in a jvm identifier. IIRC, this is essentially what tomcat when generating

Re: [id] UUID update

2004-02-20 Thread Phil Steitz
Tim Reilly wrote: I'll be traveling until March 1st - so I won't have much access to respond to comments or question regarding this post until after next week. However, looking forward to your thoughts. Alrighty then :-) I will look at this stuff carefully this weekend, but one thing that

RE: [id] UUID update

2004-02-19 Thread Tim Reilly
I'll be traveling until March 1st - so I won't have much access to respond to comments or question regarding this post until after next week. However, looking forward to your thoughts. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [id] UUID update

2004-02-18 Thread Gary Gregory
I appologize for this as I mistook the ticket as a [lang] and not [sandbox] ticket. Gary -Original Message- From: Tim Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 17:28 To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: RE: [id] UUID update Hi Gary, [I wrote

RE: [id] UUID update

2004-02-18 Thread Tim Reilly
, February 18, 2004 9:52 PM To: 'Jakarta Commons Developers List' Subject: RE: [id] UUID update I appologize for this as I mistook the ticket as a [lang] and not [sandbox] ticket. Gary -Original Message- From: Tim Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 18