UUID Usage Help

[fogest]

I'm trying to use this UUID Script : http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=19370&view=findpost&p=199602

Now I have it generate the UUID and they will have to send me that id. I want to have my program get the UUID and make sure it matches the one they gave

So like if UUID = 1 then

(code here)

Else

Exit

Thats basically what I want. But how do I do this using that UUID script?

[SmOke_N]

Are you trying to validate that your application is ok to run on their PC?

If so:

A UUID is great, however, you need to store it somewhere, and make sure it's only ever run once.

Problem 1:

Once the UUID is stored on disk, it can be passed to anyone else.

Solution:

Well, there isn't a full proof one really.

WMI creates a UUID I believe that uses some bios setting, which his hard to duplicate other than maybe a clone ( maybe it uses hardware settings, who knows ).

There are other issues such as spoofing with UUIDs, but the bottom line is, what is your ultimate end goal?

[fogest]

I plan on releasing the program on a forum. This forum has man people who are only there to just download the file and not comment or anything and post it on another forum. I want to prevent this by making them download the program to get there UUID. It gives that to them and they must send that too me.

What I want to do is then make a special program for that uuid that will check if there uuid matches the one they gave me.

[guinness]

Don't know if this Helps, but in WinAPIEx (by Yashied) there is a Function called _WinAPI_UniqueHardwareID() which "Generates a unique hardware identifier (ID) for local computer."

Or _WinAPI_CreateGUID() in WinAPIEx will create a random GUID.

Edited June 9, 2011 by guinness