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Re: [cgiapp] CGI::Session::ID::md5->generate_id & data collision



Strong wrote:

> I can't understand why You do not simply use a huge random ids?

How can you generate huge, truly random ids? In a multi-process (even
multi-server) environment, how can you guarantee that they are random without a
huge overhead of communication. That's the problem they were trying to solve.

-- 
Michael Peters
Developer
Plus Three, LP


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