triblespace-core 0.35.0

The triblespace core implementation.
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use rand::thread_rng;
use rand::RngCore;

use super::ExclusiveId;
use super::Id;

/// # Random Number Generated ID (RNGID)
/// Are generated by simply taking 128bits from a cryptographic random
/// source. They are easy to implement and provide the maximum possible amount
/// of entropy at the cost of locality and compressability. However UFOIDs are
/// almost universally a better choice, unless the use-case is incompatible with
/// leaking the time at which an id was minted.
pub fn rngid() -> ExclusiveId {
    let mut rng = thread_rng();
    let mut id = [0; 16];
    rng.fill_bytes(&mut id[..]);

    ExclusiveId::force(Id::new(id).expect("The probability for rng = 0 should be neglegible."))
}