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   Dan Cross to nowhere@never.at   
   Re: Secrets on UEFI GPT   
   11 Feb 24 01:11:56   
   
   From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net   
      
   In article ,   
   wolfgang kern   wrote:   
   >On 10/02/2024 05:45, Alexei A. Frounze wrote:   
   >> On Friday, February 9, 2024 at 8:23:07 PM UTC-8, wolfgang kern wrote:   
   >>> how could I make sure [GUID]'s globally unique then ?   
   >>   
   >> Probability of collision is expected to be low enough to treat the number   
   unique in practice.   
   >> See   
   >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier   
   >> and specifically   
   >> ITU-T Rec. X.667 or RFC 4122   
   >   
   >thanks a lot Alex, I now can add this link to my GPT-docs   
   >   
   >https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/asn1/Pages/UUID/uuids.aspx   
   >   
   >why was it that hard to get this info :)   
      
   ...it's not?  I mean, did you try to look it up?   
      
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