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Subject: Microsoft's UUIDs
From: M****** R****** (m***swirl.com)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 20:04:57 CDT

Usually, UUIDs in part comprise the MAC address of the generating computer.

However - according to Microsoft (see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/midl/mi-laref_2g10.htm),

"For security reasons, it is often desirable to keep ethernet/token ring
addresses on networks from becoming available outside a company or
organization. In Windows 2000, the UuidCreate function generates a UUID that
cannot be traced to the ethernet/token ring address of the computer on which
it was generated. It also cannot be associated with other UUIDs created on
the same computer."

anyone have any insights as to what's in here that deserves the _c word ?

--m