+-- Prosody IM
+-- Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Matthew Wild
+-- Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Waqas Hussain
+--
+-- This project is MIT/X11 licensed. Please see the
+-- COPYING file in the source package for more information.
+--
-local m_random = math.random;
-module "uuid"
+local random = require "util.random";
+local random_bytes = random.bytes;
+local hex = require "util.hex".to;
+local m_ceil = math.ceil;
-function generate()
- return m_random(0, 99999999);
+local function get_nibbles(n)
+ return hex(random_bytes(m_ceil(n/2))):sub(1, n);
end
-return _M;
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+local function get_twobits()
+ return ("%x"):format(get_nibbles(1):byte() % 4 + 8);
+end
+
+local function generate()
+ -- generate RFC 4122 complaint UUIDs (version 4 - random)
+ return get_nibbles(8).."-"..get_nibbles(4).."-4"..get_nibbles(3).."-"..(get_twobits())..get_nibbles(3).."-"..get_nibbles(12);
+end
+
+return {
+ get_nibbles=get_nibbles;
+ generate = generate ;
+ -- COMPAT
+ seed = random.seed;
+};