client javascript uuid v4 and v5 generator. do not require additional libs. adopted from 'superscore' extensions by David Souther. http://davidsouther.github.com/superscore/ usage: var randomUUID = underscore.UUID.v4(); var uuidv5 = underscore.UUID.v5(msg,namespace);

underscore.uuid.js

var underscore = (function(underscore){


// Build several namespaces, globally...
var UUID = {};
var Sha1 = function(str){return Sha1.hash(str, true);};
var Utf8 = {};

var extend = function() {
  var options, name, src, copy, copyIsArray, clone,
		target = arguments[0] || {},
		i = 1,
		length = arguments.length,
		deep = false;

	// Handle a deep copy situation
	if ( typeof target === "boolean" ) {
		deep = target;
		target = arguments[1] || {};
		// skip the boolean and the target
		i = 2;
	}

	// Handle case when target is a string or something (possible in deep copy)
	if ( typeof target !== "object" && !underscore.isFunction(target) ) {
		target = {};
	}

	// extend jQuery itself if only one argument is passed
	if ( length === i ) {
		target = this;
		--i;
	}

	for ( ; i < length; i++ ) {
		// Only deal with non-null/undefined values
		if ( (options = arguments[ i ]) !== null ) {
			// Extend the base object
			for ( name in options ) {
				src = target[ name ];
				copy = options[ name ];

				// Prevent never-ending loop
				if ( target === copy ) {
					continue;
				}

				// Recurse if we're merging plain objects or arrays
				if ( deep && copy && ( underscore.isPlainObject(copy) || (copyIsArray = underscore.isArray(copy)) ) ) {
					if ( copyIsArray ) {
						copyIsArray = false;
						clone = src && underscore.isArray(src) ? src : [];

					} else {
						clone = src && underscore.isPlainObject(src) ? src : {};
					}

					// Never move original objects, clone them
					target[ name ] = underscore.extend( deep, clone, copy );

				// Don't bring in undefined values
				} else if ( copy !== undefined ) {
					target[ name ] = copy;
				}
			}
		}
	}
	// Return the modified object
	return target;
};

underscore = extend(underscore,{extend: extend});

UUID.rvalid = /^\{?[0-9a-f]{8}\-?[0-9a-f]{4}\-?[0-9a-f]{4}\-?[0-9a-f]{4}\-?[0-9a-f]{12}\}?$/i;

UUID.v4 = function() {
	return 'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-4xxx-yxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx'.replace(/[xy]/g, function(c) {
		var r = Math.random()*16|0, v = c === 'x' ? r : (r&0x3|0x8);
		return v.toString(16);
	});
};

UUID.v5 = function(msg, namespace) {
	var nst = bin(namespace || '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000');

	var hash = Sha1.hash(nst + msg, true);
	var uuid =  hash.substring(0, 8) +	//8 digits
		'-' + hash.substring(8, 12)	+ //4 digits
//			// four most significant bits holds version number 5
		'-' + ((parseInt(hash.substring(12, 16), 16) & 0x0fff) | 0x5000).toString(16) +
//			// two most significant bits holds zero and one for variant DCE1.1
		'-' + ((parseInt(hash.substring(16, 20), 16) & 0x3fff) | 0x8000).toString(16) +
		'-' + hash.substring(20, 32);	//12 digits
	return uuid;
};

// Convert a string UUID to binary format.
//
// @param   string  uuid
// @return  string
var bin = function(uuid) {
	if ( ! uuid.match(UUID.rvalid))
	{	//Need a real UUID for this...
		return false;
	}

	// Get hexadecimal components of uuid
	var hex = uuid.replace(/[\-{}]/g, '');

	// Binary Value
	var bin = '';

	for (var i = 0; i < hex.length; i += 2)
	{	// Convert each character to a bit
		bin += String.fromCharCode(parseInt(hex.charAt(i) + hex.charAt(i + 1), 16));
	}

	return bin;
};

//  SHA-1 implementation in JavaScript | (c) Chris Veness 2002-2010
//             | www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/sha256.html
//   - see http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/secure_hashing.html
//         http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/examples.html

//var Sha1 = {};  // Sha1 namespace

// Generates SHA-1 hash of string
//
// @param {String} msg                String to be hashed
// @param {Boolean} [utf8encode=true] Encode msg as UTF-8 before generating hash
// @returns {String}                  Hash of msg as hex character string
Sha1.hash = function(msg, utf8encode) {
	var i, t;
	utf8encode =  (typeof utf8encode === 'undefined') ? true : utf8encode;

	// convert string to UTF-8, as SHA only deals with byte-streams
	if (utf8encode){ msg = Utf8.encode(msg); }

	// constants [§4.2.1]
	var K = [0x5a827999, 0x6ed9eba1, 0x8f1bbcdc, 0xca62c1d6];

	// PREPROCESSING

	msg += String.fromCharCode(0x80);  // add trailing '1' bit (+ 0's padding) to string [§5.1.1]

	// convert string msg into 512-bit/16-integer blocks arrays of ints [§5.2.1]
	var l = msg.length/4 + 2;  // length (in 32-bit integers) of msg + ‘1’ + appended length
	var N = Math.ceil(l/16);   // number of 16-integer-blocks required to hold 'l' ints
	var M = new Array(N);

	for (i=0; i<N; i++) {
		M[i] = new Array(16);
		for (var j=0; j<16; j++) {  // encode 4 chars per integer, big-endian encoding
			M[i][j] = (msg.charCodeAt(i*64+j*4)<<24) | (msg.charCodeAt(i*64+j*4+1)<<16) |
				(msg.charCodeAt(i*64+j*4+2)<<8) | (msg.charCodeAt(i*64+j*4+3));
		} // note running off the end of msg is ok 'cos bitwise ops on NaN return 0
	}
	// add length (in bits) into final pair of 32-bit integers (big-endian) [§5.1.1]
	// note: most significant word would be (len-1)*8 >>> 32, but since JS converts
	// bitwise-op args to 32 bits, we need to simulate this by arithmetic operators
	M[N-1][14] = ((msg.length-1)*8) / Math.pow(2, 32); M[N-1][14] = Math.floor(M[N-1][14]);
	M[N-1][15] = ((msg.length-1)*8) & 0xffffffff;

	// set initial hash value [§5.3.1]
	var H0 = 0x67452301;
	var H1 = 0xefcdab89;
	var H2 = 0x98badcfe;
	var H3 = 0x10325476;
	var H4 = 0xc3d2e1f0;

	// HASH COMPUTATION [§6.1.2]

	var W = new Array(80); var a, b, c, d, e;
	for (i=0; i<N; i++) {

		// 1 - prepare message schedule 'W'
		for (t=0;  t<16; t++){ W[t] = M[i][t]; }
		for (t=16; t<80; t++){ W[t] = Sha1.ROTL(W[t-3] ^ W[t-8] ^ W[t-14] ^ W[t-16], 1); }

		// 2 - initialise five working variables a, b, c, d, e with previous hash value
		a = H0; b = H1; c = H2; d = H3; e = H4;

		// 3 - main loop
		for (t=0; t<80; t++) {
			var s = Math.floor(t/20); // seq for blocks of 'f' functions and 'K' constants
			var T = (Sha1.ROTL(a,5) + Sha1.f(s,b,c,d) + e + K[s] + W[t]) & 0xffffffff;
			e = d;
			d = c;
			c = Sha1.ROTL(b, 30);
			b = a;
			a = T;
		}

		// 4 - compute the new intermediate hash value
		H0 = (H0+a) & 0xffffffff;  // note 'addition modulo 2^32'
		H1 = (H1+b) & 0xffffffff;
		H2 = (H2+c) & 0xffffffff;
		H3 = (H3+d) & 0xffffffff;
		H4 = (H4+e) & 0xffffffff;
	}

	return Sha1.toHexStr(H0) + Sha1.toHexStr(H1) +
		Sha1.toHexStr(H2) + Sha1.toHexStr(H3) + Sha1.toHexStr(H4);
};

/**
 * function 'f' [§4.1.1]
 */
Sha1.f = function(s, x, y, z)  {
	switch (s) {
	case 0: return (x & y) ^ (~x & z);           // Ch()
	case 1: return x ^ y ^ z;                    // Parity()
	case 2: return (x & y) ^ (x & z) ^ (y & z);  // Maj()
	case 3: return x ^ y ^ z;                    // Parity()
	}
};

/**
 * rotate left (circular left shift) value x by n positions [§3.2.5]
 */
Sha1.ROTL = function(x, n) {
	return (x<<n) | (x>>>(32-n));
};

/**
 * hexadecimal representation of a number
 *   (note toString(16) is implementation-dependant, and
 *   in IE returns signed numbers when used on full words)
 */
Sha1.toHexStr = function(n) {
	var s="", v;
	for (var i=7; i>=0; i--) { v = (n>>>(i*4)) & 0xf; s += v.toString(16); }
	return s;
};


//  Utf8 class: encode / decode between multi-byte Unicode characters and UTF-8 multiple
//              single-byte character encoding (c) Chris Veness 2002-2010

//var Utf8 = {};  // Utf8 namespace

// Encode multi-byte Unicode string into utf-8 multiple single-byte characters
// (BMP / basic multilingual plane only)
//
// Chars in range U+0080 - U+07FF are encoded in 2 chars, U+0800 - U+FFFF in 3 chars
//
// @param {String} strUni Unicode string to be encoded as UTF-8
// @returns {String} encoded string
Utf8.encode = function(strUni) {
	// use regular expressions & String.replace callback function for better efficiency
	// than procedural approaches
	var strUtf = strUni.replace(
			/[\u0080-\u07ff]/g,  // U+0080 - U+07FF => 2 bytes 110yyyyy, 10zzzzzz
			function(c) {
				var cc = c.charCodeAt(0);
				return String.fromCharCode(0xc0 | cc>>6, 0x80 | cc&0x3f); }
		);
	strUtf = strUtf.replace(
			/[\u0800-\uffff]/g,  // U+0800 - U+FFFF => 3 bytes 1110xxxx, 10yyyyyy, 10zzzzzz
			function(c) {
				var cc = c.charCodeAt(0);
				return String.fromCharCode(0xe0 | cc>>12, 0x80 | cc>>6&0x3F, 0x80 | cc&0x3f); }
		);
	return strUtf;
};

// Decode utf-8 encoded string back into multi-byte Unicode characters
//
// @param {String} strUtf UTF-8 string to be decoded back to Unicode
// @returns {String} decoded string
Utf8.decode = function(strUtf) {
	// note: decode 3-byte chars first as decoded 2-byte strings could appear to be 3-byte char!
	var strUni = strUtf.replace(
			/[\u00e0-\u00ef][\u0080-\u00bf][\u0080-\u00bf]/g,  // 3-byte chars
			function(c) {  // (note parentheses for precence)
				var cc = ((c.charCodeAt(0)&0x0f)<<12) | ((c.charCodeAt(1)&0x3f)<<6) | ( c.charCodeAt(2)&0x3f);
				return String.fromCharCode(cc); }
		);
	strUni = strUni.replace(
			/[\u00c0-\u00df][\u0080-\u00bf]/g,                 // 2-byte chars
			function(c) {  // (note parentheses for precence)
				var cc = (c.charCodeAt(0)&0x1f)<<6 | c.charCodeAt(1)&0x3f;
				return String.fromCharCode(cc); }
		);
	return strUni;
};


underscore = extend(underscore, {
	'UUID': UUID,
	'Utf8': Utf8,
	'Sha1': Sha1
});

return underscore;

}.call(this, underscore));