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by nomilk 564 days ago
Oh.. ha, gotcha. Thanks for explaining. Incidentally, glad uuid's computed on the fly (as opposed to pre-computed) as I think the site would require a very (impossibly?) large database.
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If it weren't impossible to store 2^122 128 bit values, things would look pretty dire for most cryptographic algorithms we use.