Get Unique Id
/**
* Berlin Brown
* Dec 6, 2006
*
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* Botlist contains an open source suite of software applications for
* social bookmarking and collecting online news content for use on the web.
* Multiple web front-ends exist for Django, Rails, and J2EE.
* Users and remote agents are allowed to submit interesting articles.
*
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//package org.bresearch.websec.utils.botlist;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.util.Random;
/**
* This is class is used by botverse.
*
* Usage: BotListUniqueId.getUniqueId())
* @author Berlin Brown
*
*/
public class BotlistUniqueId {
private String toHexString(byte[] bytes) {
char[] ret = new char[bytes.length * 2];
for (int i = 0, j = 0; i < bytes.length; i++) {
int c = (int) bytes[i];
if (c < 0) {
c += 0x100;
}
ret[j++] = Character.forDigit(c / 0x10, 0x10);
ret[j++] = Character.forDigit(c % 0x10, 0x10);
}
return new String(ret);
}
public String getUniqueId() {
String digest = "";
try {
MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
String timeVal = "" + (System.currentTimeMillis() + 1);
String localHost = "";;
try {
localHost = InetAddress.getLocalHost().toString();
} catch (UnknownHostException e) {
// If an error, we can use other values.
}
String randVal = "" + new Random().nextInt();
String val = timeVal + localHost + randVal;
md.reset();
md.update(val.getBytes());
// Generate the digest.
digest = toHexString(md.digest());
} catch(NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
} // End of the Try - Catch
return digest;
} // End of the Method //
}
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