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Re:UUIDs in MySQL are really not random by gtsteve on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @10:02AM (#19085826)
Some developers use them in the place of random password generation for example. In this article, we discovered why it's not a good idea.

In other words, you shouldn't use a non-cryptographic RNG for security purposes.

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