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by progbits 530 days ago
This is missing a checksum which helps secret scanning avoid false positives in other high entropy strings.

See for example: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/secret-scanning/sec...

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Crockford has a checksum though
https://github.com/agentstation/uuidkey/blob/master/uuidkey....

They don't appear to check validity though? I haven't tested it so maybe someone else can double check.

yes they do. We use it in prod