On 4/25/14, 12:58 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
Well, I've already had collisions with UUID-OSSP, in production, with only around 20 billion values. So clearly there aren't 122bits of true randomness in OSSP. I can't speak for other implementations because I haven't tried them.
Or perhaps you should be buying lottery tickets? ;) Can you write this up in a blog post? I've argued with people more than once about why it's a bad idea to trust on "1 in a bazillion" odds to protect your data (though, usually in the context of SHA1), and it'd be good to be able to point at a real world example of this failing. -- Jim C. Nasby, Data Architect j...@nasby.net 512.569.9461 (cell) http://jim.nasby.net -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
