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OSSP uuid is a C API and corresponding CLI program for the generation
and analysis of DCE 1.1 and, IETF RFC-9562- compliant Universally Unique
Identifiers (UUIDs). It supports variant 1 UUIDs of versions:
1 (time and node),
3 (name (namespace+data), MD5),
4 (random),
5 (name (namespace+data), SHA-1),
6 (time and node with improved locality),
7 (UNIX time, random data).
Additional API bindings are provided for C++98 (deprecated) and Perl:5.
Optional backward compatibility exists for the ISO-C DCE-1.1
and Perl Data::UUID APIs.
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UUIDs are 128 bit numbers which are intended to have a high likelihood
of uniqueness over space and time and are computationally difficult
to guess. They are globally unique identifiers which can be locally
generated without contacting a global registration authority. UUIDs
are intended as unique identifiers for both mass tagging objects
with an extremely short lifetime and to reliably identifying very
persistent objects across a network.
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This package contains the Universally Unique Identifier Command-Line Tool.