UUID.js

UUID.js

// Reminder: this is not crypto, just UUID
// Source & licence: https://littlemaninmyhead.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/cautionary-note-uuids-should-generally-not-be-used-for-authentication-tokens/
function randomUUID() {
  var s = [], itoh = '0123456789ABCDEF';

  // Make array of random hex digits. The UUID only has 32 digits in it, but we
  // allocate an extra items to make room for the '-'s we'll be inserting.
  for (var i = 0; i < 36; i++) s[i] = Math.floor(Math.random()*0x10);

  // Conform to RFC-4122, section 4.4
  s[14] = 4;  // Set 4 high bits of time_high field to version
  s[19] = (s[19] & 0x3) | 0x8;  // Specify 2 high bits of clock sequence

  // Convert to hex chars
  for (var i = 0; i < 36; i++) s[i] = itoh[s[i]];

  // Insert '-'s
  s[8] = s[13] = s[18] = s[23] = '-';

  return s.join('');
}