[keycloak-dev] Use UUID for IDs

[Bill Burke]

On 2/7/2014 9:33 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
>> To: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
>> Sent: Friday, 7 February, 2014 2:04:24 PM
>> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] Use UUID for IDs
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>> Not sure why I didn't use UUID in the first place.  I've used it in
>> other code bases.  I guess maybe I wasn't sure if UUID.randomUUID()
>> guaranteed that the UUID was always unique.  Wasn't clear if a time
>> component is added to the UUID.
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> AFAIK there's no time component, but the risk of collision is extremely small
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Hopefully no security weeny identifies that as a security risk.

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