Talk:Security Identifier

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It occurs to me that I thought this was describing GUIDs, not SIDs. So, my point was quite invalid. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.147.40.60 (talk) 00:31, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

I think that describing the SID as an alphanumeric name is a poor choice of terminology. While, when presented as a hexadecimal string, the constituents of the name are either alphabetic or numeric, the term alphanumeric does not give a sense of those characters which could not be in the SID. I believe hexadecimal would be better here. Of course the SID is actually a 128-bit identifier, and not it's hexadecimal (and punctuated) presentation, but if it is to be described by it's presentation, surely hexadecimal is the term. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.147.40.60 (talk) 00:26, 22 December 2007 (UTC)