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Subject:	Re: OID generation (was: Re: wishing upon a star)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:44:12 GMT
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In lugnet.db.brictionary, Todd Lehman writes: > [...] or are there more robust methods for generating OIDs? (Let's > assume WoLOG that 2^32 is a sufficient maximum number of OIDs; it > could just as well be 48 or 64 bits.) Just to save others the effort -- "wolog" occurs 3 times on Hotbot and 28 times in Alta Vista. The best interpretation in this context appears to be an abbreviation for "without loss of generality". - Robert Munafo http://www.mrob.com/ LEGO: TC+++(8480) SW++ #+ S-- LS++ Hsp M+ A@ LM++ YB64m IC13

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		Re: OID generation (was: Re: wishing upon a star)
(...) If you didn't already know that.... you have to ask yourself... do you feel lucky? huh, do ya? ... <slap> whoops. wrong thread. you have to ask yourself, are you geeky enough to be on this group? <grins, ducks and runs> (26 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		OID generation (was: Re: wishing upon a star)
(...) Lar, I've been experimenting with a method for OID construction which takes a pseudorandom 32-bit integer, converts it to a 40-bit integer by adding 8 bits of CRC, then converts that an to 8-byte base-32 ASCII representation using the 32 (...) (26 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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