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- // Copyright 2011 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
- // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
- // license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
- package uuid
- import guuid "github.com/google/uuid"
- // Random returns a Random (Version 4) UUID or panics.
- //
- // The strength of the UUIDs is based on the strength of the crypto/rand
- // package.
- //
- // A note about uniqueness derived from the UUID Wikipedia entry:
- //
- // Randomly generated UUIDs have 122 random bits. One's annual risk of being
- // hit by a meteorite is estimated to be one chance in 17 billion, that
- // means the probability is about 0.00000000006 (6 × 10−11),
- // equivalent to the odds of creating a few tens of trillions of UUIDs in a
- // year and having one duplicate.
- func NewRandom() UUID {
- if gu, err := guuid.NewRandom(); err == nil {
- return UUID(gu[:])
- }
- return nil
- }
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