From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Mar 04 2004 - 14:48:45 EST
--- Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere_at_teaser.fr> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 15:50, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> > Just some more comments on the uuids:
> >
> > There has been a preference option NoMACinUUID for
> those who do not
> > wish to have their MAC address embeded in the
> documents; I just did
> > not get to producing a GUI for setting. I am not
> sure how strong
> > people feel about this as a privacy issue: if the
> feelings are strong
> > we could make no-MAC the default, or, if the
> feelings are very
> > strong, we could remove it altogether (I am not
> greatly in favour of
> > the last one).
>
> Please, don't use the MAC address to perform UUID.
I'm not even up to this point yet. My questions still
haven't been answered:
1) What math are you doing to see if document A is
"related do" document B?
2) Why do you need UUIDs to do so?
If you need a psuedo-unique identifier, using 4
rands() might be ok. But what are the randomness and
uniqueness constraints at play here? Why do we
specifically need UUIDs?
Dom
=====
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