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Re:First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Million... by tptacek on Friday May 24, 2019 @10:06PM (#20006684)
No, the cryptographic security of the identifier matters a lot. A GUID generated from an insecure PRNG can be used to predict other GUIDs. A UUID generated from 16 bytes of /dev/urandom can't be used to get anything but the object to which it refers.
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