From what I can dimly understand of the various versions of the
spec, there are time-based, name-based and random-based versions.
All of them are built from 1 x 60 bit value, 1 x 14 bit value and 1 x
48 bit value, plus 4 bits for the version id, and 2 bits for the
'variant' (I haven't worked out exactly what that is, but apparently
it should be 1 0.)
In the random version, each of these values (apart from the version
and variant) is generated randomly, or pseudo-randomly.
So my naive question is, for the random version, what would be wrong
with simply generating a random sequence of 128 1s and 0s, sticking
the version and variant bits in the right places, and then
baseConverting the whole thing in groups of 4 to Hex digits. Add the
formatting dashes, and it's done.
This is probably very naive indeed, perhaps someone here understands
the issues well enough to comment.
Best,
Mark
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