iOS NSUUID category for calculating an RFC4122 compliant uuid5. Tested / compatible with python's uuid.uuid5

NSUUID+uuid5.h

//
// NSUUID+uuid5.h
//
// MIT License (aka, do with it what you want)
//
// Copyright (c) 2015 Eli Burke [email protected]
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//
// With thanks to
// https://gist.github.com/datalogics-robl/6215182
// and
// https://gist.github.com/superduper/177aab4b9700e41103e3
// both are flawed but pointed me in the right direction
//
// output can be tested in a python interpreter
// > python
// >>> import uuid
// >>> uuid.uuid5(uuid.NAMESPACE_URL,"input string")
// UUID('4552de95-510d-5ab2-85a0-6f42ceacdb7e')
// >>> uuid.uuid5(uuid.NAMESPACE_URL,"input string").hex
// '4552de95510d5ab285a06f42ceacdb7e'
//

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <CommonCrypto/CommonDigest.h>

@interface NSUUID (uuid5)

+ (NSUUID*)uuid5:(NSUUID*)namespace input:(NSString*)input;

+ (NSUUID *)NAMESPACE_DNS;
+ (NSUUID *)NAMESPACE_URL;
+ (NSUUID *)NAMESPACE_OID;
+ (NSUUID *)NAMESPACE_X500;

@end

@implementation NSUUID (uuid5)

+ (NSUUID*)uuid5:(NSUUID*)namespace input:(NSString*)input {
    
    // convert the namespace UUID to bytes
    uuid_t namespaceUUID, resultUUID;
    [namespace getUUIDBytes:namespaceUUID];
    
    // convert the input string to bytes
    NSData * inputData = [input dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
    
    // combine the two sets of bytes
    NSMutableData *hashData = [NSMutableData dataWithBytes:namespaceUUID length:sizeof(uuid_t)];
    [hashData appendBytes:inputData.bytes length:inputData.length];
    
    // hash with SHA1
    NSMutableData * digestData = [NSMutableData dataWithLength:CC_SHA1_DIGEST_LENGTH];
    CC_SHA1(hashData.bytes, hashData.length, [digestData mutableBytes]);
    
    // convert back to uuid_t so we can tweak bytes
    [digestData getBytes:resultUUID length:sizeof(resultUUID)];
    
    // this is uuid5, so always set the version to 5
    resultUUID[6]  = ((resultUUID[6] & 0x0F) | (0x50));
    
    // https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt
    // we want a RFC4122 hash, so the leftmost bits should be 10xxxxxx
    // to achieve that, first AND with 00111111, then OR with 10000000
    resultUUID[8]  = ((resultUUID[8] & 0x3F) | 0x80 );
    
    return [[NSUUID alloc] initWithUUIDBytes:resultUUID];
}

+ (NSUUID *)NAMESPACE_DNS {
    static NSUUID * uuid;
    static dispatch_once_t onceToken;
    dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{
        uuid = [[NSUUID alloc] initWithUUIDString:@"6ba7b810-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8"];
    });
    return uuid;
}

+ (NSUUID *)NAMESPACE_URL {
    static NSUUID * uuid;
    static dispatch_once_t onceToken;
    dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{
        uuid = [[NSUUID alloc] initWithUUIDString:@"6ba7b811-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8"];
    });
    return uuid;
}

+ (NSUUID *)NAMESPACE_OID {
    static NSUUID * uuid;
    static dispatch_once_t onceToken;
    dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{
        uuid = [[NSUUID alloc] initWithUUIDString:@"6ba7b812-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8"];
    });
    return uuid;
}

+ (NSUUID *)NAMESPACE_X500 {
    static NSUUID * uuid;
    static dispatch_once_t onceToken;
    dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{
        uuid = [[NSUUID alloc] initWithUUIDString:@"6ba7b814-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8"];
    });
    return uuid;
}

@end