Package: uuid
Version: 1.6.2-1.5+b4

Calling “uuid -v 1” in Debian Stretch generates UUIDs with random MAC
address instead of the MAC address assigned to the network interface,
see this interaction log:

mario@svetlana [0] [/home/mario]
$ uuid -v 1
5d1ec982-c33b-11e7-b674-9bdcde051745
mario@svetlana [0] [/home/mario]
$ uuid -d 5d1ec982-c33b-11e7-b674-9bdcde051745
encode: STR:     5d1ec982-c33b-11e7-b674-9bdcde051745
        SIV:     123778059638165669942124017972807014213
decode: variant: DCE 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996
        version: 1 (time and node based)
        content: time:  2017-11-06 21:42:19.087501.0 UTC
                 clock: 13940 (usually random)
                 node:  9b:dc:de:05:17:45 (local multicast)

This was run on a physical (non-virtual) machine with one 802.3 and one
802.11 interface.

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