Re: Apple Serial Number: Redux
Re: Apple Serial Number: Redux
- Subject: Re: Apple Serial Number: Redux
- From: Douglas Davidson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:33:46 -0800
On Tuesday, January 22, 2002, at 05:12 AM, Simson Garfinkel wrote:
* I was interested in doing this for uniquification, not for copy
protection. Several people suggested that I use ethernet Mac address,
which
is supposed to be unique. I'm actually using a code made up from the
time
and random().
CFUUID will do this quite conveniently, and a fair bit of work has gone
into making it bulletproof. It gives you 128 bits, either as a struct
or in a string representation. CFUUID.h for the programmatic interface,
/usr/bin/uuidgen from the command line.
Douglas Davidson