UUID Generator 0.1.1.150

(November 15, 2010)

Windows 7/2000/Server 2003/Server 2008/Vista/XP / Freeware / 310 downloads

UUID Generator is a small little program for generating UUIDs. A Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) is an identifier standard used in software construction, standardized by the Open Software Foundation (OSF) as part of the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). The intent of UUIDs is to enable distributed systems to uniquely identify information without significant central coordination. Thus, anyone can create a UUID and use it to identify something with reasonable confidence that the identifier will never be unintentionally used by anyone for anything else. Information labeled with UUIDs can therefore be later combined into a single database without needing to resolve name conflicts. The most widespread use of this standard is in Microsoftâ??s Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs) which implement this standard. Other significant users include Linuxâ??s ext2/ext3 file system, LUKS encrypted partitions, GNOME, KDE, and Mac OS X, all of which use implementations derived from the UUID library found in the e2fsprogs package. A UUID is essentially a 16-byte (128-bit) number.