[fpc-pascal] CreateGUID() [was Re: GUID code]

Matt Emson memsom at interalpha.co.uk
Sun May 22 00:38:54 CEST 2005


> The reason I would like this is, there are timesone would
> want to create GUIDs based on self supplied MAC numbers.

Except, this is not how GUID's are generated under Windows anymore.
Microsoft bowed to preassure and now use a completely random key generation
technique. This was because a reaction to the paranoid people shouting that
Microsoft were attempting to track them via their MAC address. Okay, MAC
address is by no means unique, but it does single out a very small
subsection of users to be pinpointed by MAC address. Basing any GUID code on
MAC address manipulation to gain pseudo random numbers is therefor on shaky
ground.

Matt





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