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+// Copyright 2016 Google Inc.  All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package uuid
+
+import "io"
+
+// New creates a new random UUID or panics.  New is equivalent to
+// the expression
+//
+//    uuid.Must(uuid.NewRandom())
+func New() UUID {
+	return Must(NewRandom())
+}
+
+// NewString creates a new random UUID and returns it as a string or panics.
+// NewString is equivalent to the expression
+//
+//    uuid.New().String()
+func NewString() string {
+	return Must(NewRandom()).String()
+}
+
+// NewRandom returns a Random (Version 4) UUID.
+//
+// The strength of the UUIDs is based on the strength of the crypto/rand
+// package.
+//
+// Uses the randomness pool if it was enabled with EnableRandPool.
+//
+// A note about uniqueness derived from the UUID Wikipedia entry:
+//
+//  Randomly generated UUIDs have 122 random bits.  One's annual risk of being
+//  hit by a meteorite is estimated to be one chance in 17 billion, that
+//  means the probability is about 0.00000000006 (6 × 10−11),
+//  equivalent to the odds of creating a few tens of trillions of UUIDs in a
+//  year and having one duplicate.
+func NewRandom() (UUID, error) {
+	if !poolEnabled {
+		return NewRandomFromReader(rander)
+	}
+	return newRandomFromPool()
+}
+
+// NewRandomFromReader returns a UUID based on bytes read from a given io.Reader.
+func NewRandomFromReader(r io.Reader) (UUID, error) {
+	var uuid UUID
+	_, err := io.ReadFull(r, uuid[:])
+	if err != nil {
+		return Nil, err
+	}
+	uuid[6] = (uuid[6] & 0x0f) | 0x40 // Version 4
+	uuid[8] = (uuid[8] & 0x3f) | 0x80 // Variant is 10
+	return uuid, nil
+}
+
+func newRandomFromPool() (UUID, error) {
+	var uuid UUID
+	poolMu.Lock()
+	if poolPos == randPoolSize {
+		_, err := io.ReadFull(rander, pool[:])
+		if err != nil {
+			poolMu.Unlock()
+			return Nil, err
+		}
+		poolPos = 0
+	}
+	copy(uuid[:], pool[poolPos:(poolPos+16)])
+	poolPos += 16
+	poolMu.Unlock()
+
+	uuid[6] = (uuid[6] & 0x0f) | 0x40 // Version 4
+	uuid[8] = (uuid[8] & 0x3f) | 0x80 // Variant is 10
+	return uuid, nil
+}