Could this cause multiple identical GUIDs?
As GUID generation is time-dependent, if System.Guid.NewGuid() is called multiple times at the exact same instant on different threads, could it return identical GUIDs? George V. Reilly On Windows, GUIDs (UUIDs) are created from a cryptographic random number generator with UuidCreate . They are version 4 UUIDs in terms of RFC 4122 . No timestamps or ethernet cards are involved, unless you're using old school version 1 GUIDs created with UuidCreateSequential . See also How Random is System.Guid.NewGuid()? (Take two) No, there is a serial number inside it that changes for each call, so multiple