Moving Away from UUIDs
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If you need an unguessable random string (for a session cookie or access token, for example), it can be tempting to reach for a random UUID, which looks like this: 88cf3e49-e28e-4c0e-b95f-6a68a785a89d This is a 128-bit value formatted as 36 hexadecimal … Read more