.NET Short Unique Identifier

Question

I need a unique identifier in .NET (cannot use GUID as it is too long for this case).

Do people think that the algorithm used here is a good candidate or do you have

Answer 1

here my solution, is not safe for concurrency, no more of 1000 GUID's per seconds and thread safe.

public static class Extensors
{

    private static object _lockGuidObject;

    public static string GetGuid()
    {

        if (_lockGuidObject == null)
            _lockGuidObject = new object();


        lock (_lockGuidObject)
        {

            Thread.Sleep(1);
            var epoch = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
            var epochLong = Convert.ToInt64((DateTime.UtcNow - epoch).TotalMilliseconds);

            return epochLong.DecimalToArbitrarySystem(36);

        }

    }

    /// 

    /// Converts the given decimal number to the numeral system with the
    /// specified radix (in the range [2, 36]).
    /// 
    /// The number to convert.
    /// The radix of the destination numeral system (in the range [2, 36]).
    /// 
    public static string DecimalToArbitrarySystem(this long decimalNumber, int radix)
    {
        const int BitsInLong = 64;
        const string Digits = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";

        if (radix < 2 || radix > Digits.Length)
            throw new ArgumentException("The radix must be >= 2 and <= " + Digits.Length.ToString());

        if (decimalNumber == 0)
            return "0";

        int index = BitsInLong - 1;
        long currentNumber = Math.Abs(decimalNumber);
        char[] charArray = new char[BitsInLong];

        while (currentNumber != 0)
        {
            int remainder = (int)(currentNumber % radix);
            charArray[index--] = Digits[remainder];
            currentNumber = currentNumber / radix;
        }

        string result = new String(charArray, index + 1, BitsInLong - index - 1);
        if (decimalNumber < 0)
        {
            result = "-" + result;
        }

        return result;
    }

code not optimized, just sample!.