How can applications ensure it’s unique?
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Well, it’s a 128-bit number – collisions are pretty unlikely. Even if it were completely random, you’d be unlikely to get a duplicate even in the history of the universe. There are some modifications to pure randomness to help even those collisions from occuring in practice – you can read several of them on wikipedia.