Efficient method to generate UUID String in JAVA (UUID.randomUUID().toString() without the dashes)

This does it:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    final String uuid = UUID.randomUUID().toString().replace("-", "");
    System.out.println("uuid = " + uuid);
}

Dashes don't need to be removed from HTTP request as you can see in URL of this thread. But if you want to prepare well-formed URL without dependency on data you should use URLEncoder.encode( String data, String encoding ) instead of changing standard form of you data. For UUID string representation dashes is normal.

Ended up writing something of my own based on UUID.java implementation. Note that I'm not generating a UUID, instead just a random 32 bytes hex string in the most efficient way I could think of.

Implementation

import java.security.SecureRandom;
import java.util.UUID;

public class RandomUtil {
    // Maxim: Copied from UUID implementation :)
    private static volatile SecureRandom numberGenerator = null;
    private static final long MSB = 0x8000000000000000L;

    public static String unique() {
        SecureRandom ng = numberGenerator;
        if (ng == null) {
            numberGenerator = ng = new SecureRandom();
        }

        return Long.toHexString(MSB | ng.nextLong()) + Long.toHexString(MSB | ng.nextLong());
    }       
}

Usage

RandomUtil.unique()

Tests

Some of the inputs I've tested to make sure it's working:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println(UUID.randomUUID().toString());
    System.out.println(RandomUtil.unique());

    System.out.println();
    System.out.println(Long.toHexString(0x8000000000000000L |21));
    System.out.println(Long.toBinaryString(0x8000000000000000L |21));
    System.out.println(Long.toHexString(Long.MAX_VALUE + 1));
}