From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:47:16 GMT
Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
Message-ID: <vpq8w9po4az.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <4ba27424.9804cc0a.4b1f.11b1@mx.google.com>

Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> writes:

> So, forget the original generality and let's
> define the uuid as a SHA-1 of some EASILY
> REMEMBERED, already reasonably unique piece of
> information such as an old (name,email) pair.

What's the added value of the "SHA-1" thing, here? A hash of a pair
(a, b) is exactly as unique as the pair itself (well, actually even a
bit less if you consider collisions).

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/