.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

Just in case merely removing hyphens will do for anyone:

Guid.NewGuid().ToString("n")

This generates perfectly unique strings of 32 characters:

5db4cee3bfd8436395d37fca2d48d5b3
82fac271c76148a3a0667c00a5da990d