UUID4::Tiny - Cryptographically secure v4 UUIDs for Linux x64

version 0.003

use UUID4::Tiny qw/
   create_uuid
   create_uuid_string
   is_uuid_string
   is_uuid4_string
   string_to_uuid
   uuid_to_string
   /;

my $uuid        = create_uuid;
my $uuid_string = create_uuid_string;

$uuid        = string_to_uuid $uuid_string;
$uuid_string = uuid_to_string $uuid;

if ( is_uuid4_string $uuid_string ) { ... }

Uses the Linux getrandom() system call to generate a version 4 UUID.

Requires Linux kernel 3.17 or newer for getrandom().

my $uuid = create_uuid;

Gets a series of 16 random bytes via the getrandom() system call and sets the UUID4 version and variant on those bytes. Dies with a message containing the errno if the call to getrandom() fails.

my $uuid_string = uuid_to_string( create_uuid );

Converts a 16 byte UUID to a canonical 8-4-4-4-12 format UUID string.

Calling this function on a string that is already a UUID string will return the string unmodified, and raise a warning.

Calling this function on a reference is almost certainly not what you want, as the function would naively try to unpack the stringified reference, e.g. ARRAY(0xdeadbeef1234), into a UUID string. For this reason, the function will croak if its input is a reference.

my $uuid_string = create_uuid_string;

Shortcut for uuid_to_string called on create_uuid.

my $uuid = string_to_uuid( $uuid_string );

Converts a canonical 8-4-4-4-12 format UUID string to a 16 byte UUID.

if ( is_uuid_string( $input ) ) { ... }

Checks if the input matches the canonical 8-4-4-4-12 format.

if ( is_uuid4_string( $input ) ) { ... }

Similar to is_uuid_string, additionaly checking that the variant and version are correct for UUID v4.

• UUID::URandom - A portable UUID v4 generator using Crypt::URandom.
• UUID::Tiny - Creates version 1, 3, 4 and 5 UUIDs (not cryptographically strong due to rand() usage).

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