Use timestamps for application installation and instance names (install time
and start time respectively).
Change-Id: I4e6f39dae4644517ce18c2682f1e7743610ecc89
diff --git a/services/mgmt/device/impl/app_service.go b/services/mgmt/device/impl/app_service.go
index 3b0f15c..8e244ed 100644
--- a/services/mgmt/device/impl/app_service.go
+++ b/services/mgmt/device/impl/app_service.go
@@ -116,11 +116,9 @@
"crypto/md5"
"crypto/rand"
"encoding/base64"
- "encoding/binary"
"encoding/hex"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
- "hash/crc64"
"io/ioutil"
"os"
"os/exec"
@@ -301,12 +299,8 @@
// generateID returns a new unique id string. The uniqueness is based on the
// current timestamp. Not cryptographically secure.
func generateID() string {
- timestamp := fmt.Sprintf("%v", time.Now().Format(time.RFC3339Nano))
- h := crc64.New(crc64.MakeTable(crc64.ISO))
- h.Write([]byte(timestamp))
- b := make([]byte, 8)
- binary.LittleEndian.PutUint64(b, uint64(h.Sum64()))
- return strings.TrimRight(base64.URLEncoding.EncodeToString(b), "=")
+ const timeFormat = "20060102-15:04:05.0000"
+ return time.Now().UTC().Format(timeFormat)
}
// generateRandomString returns a cryptographically-strong random string.
