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by jandrewrogers 710 days ago
Unfortunately, UUIDv4 is often specifically prohibited for some sensitive applications due to many cases of broken RNGs undermining the security guarantees of UUIDv4. Deterministic generation plus encryption is a common choice in these cases.
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The important point is that UUIDv7 is even worse (and unsuitable) for that application so anything prohibited UUIDv4 for those reasons would not be okay with v7 either!