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Clean up GUID format #6

Closed marta- closed 4 years ago

marta- commented 4 years ago

Problems:

the prefix specifying the algorithm, cost, and salt, will be identical for all guids and is unnecessary
there are some "unsafe characters" in the guids, suc ah / and . which may cause issues in downstream applications where guids are used

To so:

[x] Remove the first 3 components of the output (algorithm, cost, and salt) and display only the actual hash
[x] Encode the hash in HEX to ensure only alphanumeric characters are generated