TSFoster/elm-uuid/2.0.1

NOTE: the latest version is 4.3.1

Elm UUID

A universally unique identifier, or UUID, is a 128-bit number, usually represented as 32 hexidecimal digits, in the format 123e4567-e89b-42d3-a456-426655440000. This package provides a UUID type, and functions for reading, creating, randomly generating, inspecting and formatting UUIDs.

There are several versions and variants of UUID. Currently, creating the nil UUID, version 3 and 4 UUIDs, and both variants are supported. However, all types can be understood and formatted.

Documentation

Warning about Version 4 UUIDs

Version 4 UUIDs have either 121 or 122 bits randomly allocated (depending on variant). I am neither an expert in entropy nor elm/random, but I suspect the Random.Generator does not provide the necessary entropy to fully utilise all those bits of randomness. Still, it is probably more than sufficient for most use cases.