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tiny-blocks/ksuid
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K-Sortable Unique Identifier.

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Ksuid
=====

[](#ksuid)

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- [Overview](#overview)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [How to use](#how-to-use)
- [License](#license)
- [Contributing](#contributing)

Overview
--------

[](#overview)

Ksuid stands for [K-Sortable Unique Identifier](https://segment.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-the-uuid). It's a way to generate globally unique IDs which are partially chronologically sortable.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require tiny-blocks/ksuid
```

How to use
----------

[](#how-to-use)

The library exposes a concrete implementation through the `Ksuid` class.

### Creating a Ksuid

[](#creating-a-ksuid)

With the `random` method, a new instance of type `Ksuid` is created from a timestamp (*current unix timestamp - EPOCH*) and a payload (*cryptographically secure pseudo-random bytes*).

```