transaction ID's

2001-05-14 Thread Christopher Molnar
I need some suggestions on transaction ID's. As most everyone knows currently the transaction ID's and the entry ID's in gnucash are something like: 2baadc3f40b0917a1025eefbac576e42 From what Dave writes: It is a string encoding of an md5 hash that is guaranteed to be unique within a given

Re: transaction ID's

2001-05-14 Thread Rob Browning
Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Um, you can certainly perform MD5 in Java... Look at www.cryptix.org And make sure your input is at least as random as gnucash's. There should be as close to no chance that you'll accidentally generate duplicate keys as possible. -- Rob Browning