Differences between current version and revision by previous author of GUID.
Other diffs: Previous Major Revision, Previous Revision, or view the Annotated Edit History
| Newer page: | version 7 | Last edited on Friday, June 24, 2005 1:57:50 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | |
| Older page: | version 6 | Last edited on Thursday, June 23, 2005 4:09:57 pm | by PerryLorier | Revert |
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
[Acronym] for __G__lobally __U__nique __ID__entifier
A system for generating identifiers so they will be globally unique (ie, no two people will ever generate the same ID). This can be used to uniquely identify some resource. These are heavily used in a lot of MicrosoftCorporation's [Software], and have had reasonable adoption by other people too.
-Some methods for generating [GUID]s have gotten a (deservedly) bad rep, such as MicrosoftCorporation's inclusion of
the host computer's [MAC] address in the [GUID]s generated by various pieces
of software such as some versions of Windows Media Player and Microsoft Office,
which allowed correlating [GUID]s from the same machine to each other, potentially even tracing them to their origin.
+Some methods for generating [GUID]s have gotten a (deservedly) bad rep, such as including
the host computer's [MAC] address in the [GUID]s generated by some
of MicrosoftCorporation's
software which allowed correlating [GUID]s from the same machine to each other, potentially even tracing them to their origin. This includes various versions of WindowsMediaPlayer and MicrosoftOffice
.
