// 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" // NewRandom 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 }