Thread: Who give me a Descriptor ID?
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Old April 3rd, 2002
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Use a random number generator. If you are using Linux, just read 16 bytes from /dev/urandom.
There are some plans, however, to make this GUID tag more descriptive.
See http://rfc-gnutella.sourceforge.net/...ID-Tagging.htm
for details.

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