Simple UID

Generate probabilistically unique strings

Uses data from Crypto.randomBytes(), process.pid as a UInt32BE (4 Bytes), and Date.now() as a DoubleBE (8 Bytes) to construct 24-bytes of chaos:

|0       7|8      15|16    23|
|----|----|----|----|--------|
| Date    |PID | Random      |

The output is Base64 encoded by default. Passing the url flag will cause the output to be URL-Safe Base64 encoded ( + becomes - and / becomes _):

var UID = require('simple-uid')
console.log("Base64: " + UID.generate())
console.log("URL-Safe: " + UID.generate(true))

Tests

Run 'em with mocha:

mocha -R spec test/00-default.js 

License

Copyright (c) 2013 John Manero, Dynamic Network Services Inc.

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