[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #6492: Guids No Longer Have Permalink Format

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#6492: Guids No Longer Have Permalink Format
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 Reporter:  brianwhite               |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement              |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General                  |     Version:  2.5
 Severity:  trivial                  |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch guid featured  |
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Comment (by braydonf):

 Replying to [comment:67 Otto42]:
 > Replying to [comment:66 braydonf]:
 > > So the GUID shouldn't be based on the URL, but what else would be used
 to get it if it where based on using a uuid, md5, sha1 hash that wouldn't
 change? Or could the GUID be a randomly generated hash and that would be
 its point of reference.
 >
 > The GUID can be anything that is "globally unique".
 >
 UUID here would be unique, since there is extremely small probability of
 collision. After calculating 70,368,744,177,664 random UUIDs the
 probability of a duplicate is 0.0000000004

 Ref:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#Random_UUID_probability_of_duplicates

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