摘要：優點隨機性從定義中可以看出，時間和隨機數的加入使得生成的是基本隨機的。唯一性由于給予的機器識別號的唯一性，保證了不同設備的也是不同的，而時間加隨機數，從理論上講，如果一臺機器每秒產生個，則可以保證概率意義上年不重復。

??UUID(Universally Unique Identifier) : 全局唯一標識符,是指在一臺機器上生成的數字，它保證對在同一時空中的所有機器都是唯一的。按照開放軟件基金會(OSF)制定的標準計算，用到了以太網卡地址、納秒級時間、芯片ID碼和許多可能的數字。由以下幾部分的組合：當前日期和時間(UUID的第一個部分與時間有關，如果你在生成一個UUID之后，過幾秒又生成一個UUID，則第一個部分不同，其余相同)，時鐘序列，全局唯一的IEEE機器識別號（如果有網卡，從網卡獲得，沒有網卡以其他方式獲得），UUID的唯一缺陷在于生成的結果串會比較長。

1. 優點

1.1. 隨機性
??從定義中可以看出，時間和隨機數的加入使得生成的UUID是基本隨機的。算法的核心思想是結合機器的網卡、當地時間、一個隨即數來生成GUID。
1.2. 唯一性
??由于給予的IEEE機器識別號的唯一性，保證了不同設備的UUID也是不同的，而時間加隨機數，從理論上講，如果一臺機器每秒產生10000000個GUID，則可以保證（概率意義上）3240年不重復。

2. 樣式

??UUID是由一個十六位的數字組成,表現出來的形式例如

550E8400-E29B-11D4-A716-446655440000   

3. 適用范圍

適用于需要唯一的ID，例如數據庫主鍵，分布式系統的模塊ID等

4. 使用方法（Java）

UUID uuid  =  UUID.randomUUID(); 
String s = UUID.randomUUID().toString();

5. 代碼分析

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import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.SecureRandom;
import java.util.Random;

public class RandomGUID extends Object {
   protected final org.apache.commons.logging.Log logger = org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory
      .getLog(getClass());

   public String valueBeforeMD5 = "";
   public String valueAfterMD5 = "";
   private static Random myRand;
   private static SecureRandom mySecureRand;

   private static String s_id;
   private static final int PAD_BELOW = 0x10;
   private static final int TWO_BYTES = 0xFF;

   /*
    * Static block to take care of one time secureRandom seed.
    * It takes a few seconds to initialize SecureRandom.  You might
    * want to consider removing this static block or replacing
    * it with a "time since first loaded" seed to reduce this time.
    * This block will run only once per JVM instance.
      */

   static {
      mySecureRand = new SecureRandom();
      long secureInitializer = mySecureRand.nextLong();
      myRand = new Random(secureInitializer);
      try {
         s_id = InetAddress.getLocalHost().toString(); //s_id表示網卡地址，這個是固定的，所以只需要第一次調用定義就可以了
      } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      }

   }


   /*
    * Default constructor.  With no specification of security option,
    * this constructor defaults to lower security, high performance.
    */
   public RandomGUID() {
      getRandomGUID(false);
   }

   /*
    * Constructor with security option.  Setting secure true
    * enables each random number generated to be cryptographically
    * strong.  Secure false defaults to the standard Random function seeded
    * with a single cryptographically strong random number.
    */
   public RandomGUID(boolean secure) {
      getRandomGUID(secure);
   }

   /*
    * Method to generate the random GUID
    */
   private void getRandomGUID(boolean secure) {
      MessageDigest md5 = null;
      StringBuffer sbValueBeforeMD5 = new StringBuffer(128);

      try {
         md5 = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
      } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
         logger.error("Error: " + e);
      }

      try {
         long time = System.currentTimeMillis();
         long rand = 0;

         if (secure) {
            rand = mySecureRand.nextLong();
         } else {
            rand = myRand.nextLong();
         }
         sbValueBeforeMD5.append(s_id);
         sbValueBeforeMD5.append(":");
         sbValueBeforeMD5.append(Long.toString(time));
         sbValueBeforeMD5.append(":");
         sbValueBeforeMD5.append(Long.toString(rand));

         valueBeforeMD5 = sbValueBeforeMD5.toString();
         md5.update(valueBeforeMD5.getBytes());

         byte[] array = md5.digest();
         StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(32);
         for (int j = 0; j < array.length; ++j) {
            int b = array[j] & TWO_BYTES;
            if (b < PAD_BELOW)
               sb.append("0");
            sb.append(Integer.toHexString(b));
         }

         valueAfterMD5 = sb.toString();

      } catch (Exception e) {
         logger.error("Error:" + e);
      }
   }

   /*
    * Convert to the standard format for GUID
    * (Useful for SQL Server UniqueIdentifiers, etc.)
    * Example: C2FEEEAC-CFCD-11D1-8B05-00600806D9B6
    */
   public String toString() {
      String raw = valueAfterMD5.toUpperCase();
      StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(64);
      sb.append(raw.substring(0, 8));
      sb.append("-");
      sb.append(raw.substring(8, 12));
      sb.append("-");
      sb.append(raw.substring(12, 16));
      sb.append("-");
      sb.append(raw.substring(16, 20));
      sb.append("-");
      sb.append(raw.substring(20));

      return sb.toString();
   }