.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

to not lose characters (+ / -) and if you want to use your guid in an url, it must be transformed into base32

for 10 000 000 no duplicate key

    public static List guids = new List();
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < 10000000; i++)
        {
            var guid = Guid.NewGuid();
            string encoded = BytesToBase32(guid.ToByteArray());
            guids.Add(encoded);
            Console.Write(".");
        }
        var result = guids.GroupBy(x => x)
                    .Where(group => group.Count() > 1)
                    .Select(group => group.Key);

        foreach (var res in result)
            Console.WriteLine($"Duplicate {res}");

        Console.WriteLine($"*********** end **************");
        Console.ReadLine();
    }

    public static string BytesToBase32(byte[] bytes)
    {
        const string alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789";
        string output = "";
        for (int bitIndex = 0; bitIndex < bytes.Length * 8; bitIndex += 5)
        {
            int dualbyte = bytes[bitIndex / 8] << 8;
            if (bitIndex / 8 + 1 < bytes.Length)
                dualbyte |= bytes[bitIndex / 8 + 1];
            dualbyte = 0x1f & (dualbyte >> (16 - bitIndex % 8 - 5));
            output += alphabet[dualbyte];
        }

        return output;
    }