Re: mac address in UuidCreateSequential

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"Jochen Kalmbach [MVP]" <nospam-Jochen.Kalmbach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

after windows 2000, the MAC address plays no part at all in the creation of
the UUID (for security reasons since the MAC can be used to trace back to
your machine)

According to the doc, this is only true for "UuidCreate"!
For "UuidCreateSequential" it has the same behavior as before...

Correct. For those who are interested in arcana, both of the formats used
by Microsoft are actually documented in great detail in RFC 4122. The
whole concept actually goes back a long time, reportedly to the old Apollo
workstations.
--
Tim Roberts, timr@xxxxxxxxx
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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