Re: Creating unique, non-reproducible serial ID

From: Per Schröder <per_at_nospam.mimer.se>
Date: 8 Mar 2001 10:13:41 GMT
Message-ID: <Xns905E68B356600pescatmimer@192.71.97.199>

"Lior Messinger" <liorm_at_noks.com> wrote in <3aa222da_at_news.barak.net.il>:

>Hi All,
>
>I'm looking for an algorithm to create a serial ID that I can give to
>users, encrypted in a away that they will not be able to recreate other
>serial IDs.
>
>Any ideas? probably an old question but still... And how about the
>similarity of problem to Credit Card ID creation?
>
>Thanks,
>Lior Messinger, NOKs

You may want to use a secure pseudorandom number generator.

Check out:
http://www.counterpane.com/yarrow.html

/Per Schröder
http://www.mimer.com Received on Thu Mar 08 2001 - 04:13:41 CST