> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jimmy Zhang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 2:50 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Vijeth D
> Subject: Re: [Sip-implementors] Call id generation.
>
>
> Maybe you can try MD5 or SHA, which give you 128 and 160 bit binary
> respectively.
> The source code for both algorithms are easily and freely
> available. As long
> as the input text is
> different, each algorithm almost guarantees a unique message digest
> (colision rate 1/ 2^128 and 1/2^160).
Well, that doesn't help at all. The whole problem is to generate a unique
identifier to begin with.
There are many ways to generate UUIDs. A google search on "UUID" turned up
man pages for Java, C and C++ code for it.
-Jonathan R.
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