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I would trust a reputable cryptographic random number generator library to really care about generating truly unguessable, high entropy cryptography-grade random numbers. I would trust a reputable UUID library to generate a UUIDv4 which is random enough to not produce a collision. I would not trust a reputable UUID library to generate truly unguessable, high entropy cryptography-grade UUIDv4s.


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