Globally unique identifier (GUID, Globally Unique Identifier) is also called UUID (Universally Unique IDentifier).
GUID is an algorithmically generated numeric identifier with a binary length of 128 bits. The format of the GUID is "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx", where x is a 32-digit hexadecimal number in the range of 0-9 or a-f. In an ideal world, no two computers or clusters of computers will generate the same GUID.
The total number of GUIDs reaches 2^128 (3.4×10^38), so the possibility of randomly generating two identical GUIDs is very small, but it is not 0. The term GUID sometimes refers specifically to Microsoft's implementation of the UUID standard.
Algorithm 1
function uuid() {
var s = [];
var hexDigits = "0123456789abcdef";
for (var i = 0; i < 36; i ) {
s[ i] = hexDigits.substr(Math.floor(Math.random() * 0x10), 1);
}
s[14] = "4"; // bits 12-15 of the time_hi_and_version field to 0010
s[19] = hexDigits.substr((s[19] & 0x3) | 0x8, 1); // bits 6-7 of the clock_seq_hi_and_reserved to 01
s[8] = s[13] = s[18] = s[23] = "-";
var uuid = s.join("");
return uuid;
}
Algorithm 2