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Comment by 8organicbits

17 hours ago

I wrote about real world collisions, including that particular library last year (https://alexsci.com/blog/uuid-oops/).

There are a bunch of constraints that must be strictly held for UUIDs to be collision resistant, I'd guess there is a problem with your random number generator.

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