ams@fourier.Princeton.EDU (Andrew Simms) (01/10/90)
Some of the folks I work for would like to make a reasonably secure scheme to insure their product runs only on machines they are licensed to run on. To do this, they would like to obtain a read-only number (such as a motherboard serial number) that could be used as a key to operate the software only on that machine. I know mathematica on the Irises has a program called mathinfo that generates a unique number but I have no idea what it does to get it. If there is sufficient interest, I will be happy to post a summary of responses emailed to me. p.s. Ethernet addresses won't quite do it, since it needs to run on machines without ethernet boards. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Simms ams@acm.princeton.edu System Administrator Program in Applied and Computational Math Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 609/258-5324 or 609/258-6227 609/258-1054 (fax)