uid
This is the repo for my FOSS, Uid!
What does it do?
uid, is a program I wrote, that generates a random string of hexadecimal characters.
With just running it, You get a 64 character random string, which is the current unix timestamp, encrypted using AES encryption.
If you pass a string as an argument to uid, It'll encrypt that string. It's not gauranteed to be 64 characters then.
I also added an alternate method for generating an ID, By passing the -v2 or -v2q argument. It'll encrypt a 16 character long string, containing the letters between A-Z and numbers between 0-9. It'll generate a 64 character long uid, just with a different input.
You may also pass the -q or -v2q argument to make it only print out the ID and not the input to the encryption.
For more info on arguments, run uid -help.
How it works
It uses AES encryption to encrypt a string.
By default, without any arguments, it uses the current unix timestamp.
If you choose to run uid with the -v2 flag, it'll encrypt a random string of 16 random ASCII characters.
Contributing
Simply fork the repo and make a pull request. If I can understand the code, and it's an improvement over what's currently in UID, I'll merge it into the master branch.
Requirements
You need to have dotnet-sdk 6.0 installed,
and bash (bash has to be at /usr/bin/bash for the scripts to work without tinkering.) , only if you want to run the scripts to build/clean your local environment.
With dotnet-sdk 6.0 and bash installed, you're ready to build uid!
Building
I don't use Visual Studio, So I don't know if the .sln project file still works, since I've edited the .csproj file without using Visual Studio.
Simply run dotnet build ./UniqueIdentifier-gen.csproj
Or, To build Release binaries for Linux and Windows, I've written a script (publish.sh) that'll build and expose built binaries.
To clean binary files, run the script, ./clean.sh.
Installation
Run the script I made to install UID.
# The script does require superuser, it'll ask for that.
$ ./install.sh
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