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UUIDTool is a command-line utility designed to work with Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs). It allows users to generate, analyze, and manipulate UUIDs in several ways
This tool is intended to be used in CTF challenges, penetration testing, and other ethical hacking activities. Do not use it for illegal or malicious purposes.
pip install uuidtool
If you use an externally managed environment:
sudo apt install pipx
pipx install uuidtool
Or
git clone https://github.com/crazycat256/uuidtool.git
cd uuidtool
pipx install .
$ uuidtool info e63034d3-acc1-11ef-8aaf-e63af2894db7
UUID: e63034d3-acc1-11ef-8aaf-e63af2894db7
Version: 1 (Time-based)
Variant: 8 (RFC 9562)
Timestamp: 2024-11-27 13:17:06 GMT (1732713426235925100)
Clock Sequence: 2735
Node: e6:3a:f2:89:4d:b7
$ uuidtool edit e63034d3-acc1-11ef-8aaf-e63af2894db7 -t 1732713730 -n 11:22:33:44:55:66
9b3eed00-acc2-11ef-8aaf-112233445566
$ uuidtool new -v 1 -t 1732718667 -c 0
19ed5780-acce-11ef-8000-e63af2894db7
$ uuidtool range e3aa7ac2-acd6-11ef-b995-e63af2894db7 5
e3aa7ac2-acd6-11ef-b995-e63af2894db7
e3aa7ac1-acd6-11ef-b995-e63af2894db7
e3aa7ac3-acd6-11ef-b995-e63af2894db7
e3aa7ac0-acd6-11ef-b995-e63af2894db7
e3aa7ac4-acd6-11ef-b995-e63af2894db7
$ uuidtool sandwich 4977ce85-acd9-11ef-801a-e63af2894db7 4977ce8b-acd9-11ef-801a-e63af2894db7
4977ce88-acd9-11ef-801a-e63af2894db7
4977ce87-acd9-11ef-801a-e63af2894db7
4977ce89-acd9-11ef-801a-e63af2894db7
4977ce86-acd9-11ef-801a-e63af2894db7
4977ce8a-acd9-11ef-801a-e63af2894db7
More examples can be found in USAGE.md.
import uuidtool, time
# Generate a UUID
uuidtool.uuid_v1(time.time_ns())
# Edit a UUID
uuidtool.edit_uuid("a0b0314a-13a0-11f0-97aa-644ed7120002", (time.time_ns() - 3600) * 1e9)
# Generate a range of UUIDs
uuidtool.uuid_range("a0b0314a-13a0-11f0-97aa-644ed7120002", 10, "asc")
# Generate a sandwich of UUIDs
uuidtool.sandwich("2e9d7ae1-13a6-11f0-86ee-644ed7120002", "2e9d7aeb-13a6-11f0-a54c-644ed7120002", "asc")
More examples can be found in USAGE.md.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details
FAQs
CLI tool to manipulate UUIDs
We found that uuidtool demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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