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UUIDs generally do not meet security requirements

Some time ago, I was doing a web application penetration test, and noticed that the authentication tokens were UUIDs. This I knew was risky, and in fact if you read the UUID rfc, section 6 of it wa…
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Nov 26, 2015UUIDs generally do not meet security requirements by xnyhps13062

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