Mac or Unquie ID

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We have written an application for PPC devices. We are looking for a way to
lock a license to the hardware. On a PC we'd use read and encode the MAC
address, how do we read this or another unique ID from PPC hardware using the
compact framework?

Any ideas would be gratefully received as its got us stumped! As long as we
can read a unique code from somewhere on the device we can generate a license
file and lock the software to the device.
 
Neil said:
We have written an application for PPC devices. We are looking for a way to
lock a license to the hardware. On a PC we'd use read and encode the MAC
address, how do we read this or another unique ID from PPC hardware using the
compact framework?

Any ideas would be gratefully received as its got us stumped! As long as we
can read a unique code from somewhere on the device we can generate a license
file and lock the software to the device.

MAC address is not a particularly good way of securing your software. I
know of at least 1 piece of software which uses the first MAC address
available on a system as the unique ID. Certain software install
virtual network devices with specific non-unique MAC addresses (they're
not actually visible outside the machine running the software). The
result is that by installing that software, you can get 'unique
identifiers' which are identical on every machine with that software
installed.

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