Re: Apple Serial Number: Redux
Re: Apple Serial Number: Redux
- Subject: Re: Apple Serial Number: Redux
- From: Mike Davis <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 15:45:02 -0500
On Tuesday, January 22, 2002, at 12:29 PM, cocoa-dev-
email@hidden wrote:
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 08:18:34 -0800
Subject: Re: Apple Serial Number: Redux
Cc: <email@hidden>
To: "Simson Garfinkel" <email@hidden>
From: email@hidden
I use this for uniquification: (NSString *)CFUUIDCreateString(NULL,
CFUUIDCreate(NULL))
Good idea... they're supposed to be unique per machine, at least with
COM on a PC.
I'd have looked at the mac address myself... not any more though.
On Tuesday, January 22, 2002, at 05:12 AM, Simson Garfinkel wrote:
To redux:
* 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().