Re: Randomizing Unique ID?

Considering the fact of me being lazy, I'd do something like this (just to save typing space):

use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex);
use Time::HiRes qw(time);

my $id = md5_hex time();
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RE: Re: Randomizing Unique ID? by jettero (Monsignor) on Aug 09, 2000 at 16:49 UTC
In practice, I prepend a string ($msg = "vcmi$msg") before I encrypt. Then, when I'm given one of my unique id's back I can verify that it hasn't been fake'd by decrypting it and checking for the /vcmi/ at the beginning. Anyhoo, that's why I use'd blowfish.	[reply]