// $Id: Uuid.cs $
// $Date: 2012-09-09 07:47Z $
// $Revision: 1.0 $
// $Author: dai $
// *************************** COPYRIGHT NOTICE ******************************
// This code was originally written by David Ireland and is copyright
// (C) 2012 DI Management Services Pty Ltd <www.di-mgt.com.au>.
// Provided "as is". No warranties. Use at your own risk. You must make your
// own assessment of its accuracy and suitability for your own purposes.
// It is not to be altered or distributed, except as part of an application.
// You are free to use it in any application, provided this copyright notice
// is left unchanged.
// ************************ END OF COPYRIGHT NOTICE **************************
// This module uses functions from the CryptoSys (tm) PKI Toolkit available from
// <www.cryptosys.net/pki/>.
// Include a reference to `diCrSysPKINet.dll` in your project.
// REFERENCE:
// RFC 4122 "A Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) URN Namespace", P. Leach et al,
// July 2005, <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt>.
using System;
using CryptoSysPKI;
static class Uuid
{
public static string UUID_Make()
{
// 12345678 9012 3456 7890 123456789012
// Returns a 36-character string in the form XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX
// where "X" is an "upper-case" hexadecimal digit [0-9A-F].
// Use the LCase function if you want lower-case letters.
byte[] abData = null;
string strHex = null;
// 1. Generate 16 random bytes = 128 bits
abData = Rng.Bytes(16);
// DEBUGGING...
//'Console.WriteLine("RNG=" & Cnv.ToHex(abData))
// 2. Adjust certain bits according to RFC 4122 section 4.4.
// This just means do the following
// (a) set the high nibble of the 7th byte equal to 4 and
// (b) set the two most significant bits of the 9th byte to 10'B,
// so the high nibble will be one of {8,9,A,B}.
abData[6] = (byte)(0x40 | ((int)abData[6] & 0xf));
abData[8] = (byte)(0x80 | ((int)abData[8] & 0x3f));
// 3. Convert the adjusted bytes to hex values
strHex = Cnv.ToHex(abData);
// DEBUGGING...
//'Console.WriteLine("ADJ=" & Cnv.ToHex(abData))
//'Console.WriteLine(" ^ ^") ' point to the nibbles we've changed
// 4. Add four hyphen '-' characters
//'strHex = Left$(strHex, 8) & "-" & Mid$(strHex, 9, 4) & "-" & Mid$(strHex, 13, 4) _
//' & "-" & Mid$(strHex, 17, 4) & "-" & Right$(strHex, 12)
strHex = strHex.Substring(0, 8) + "-" + strHex.Substring(8, 4) + "-" + strHex.Substring(12, 4) + "-" + strHex.Substring(16, 4) + "-" + strHex.Substring(20, 12);
// Return the UUID string
return strHex;
}
public static void Main()
{
string strUuid = null;
int i = 0;
for (i = 1; i <= 10; i++) {
strUuid = UUID_Make();
Console.WriteLine("{0}", strUuid);
}
}
}