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The original thread stated that he wanted to generate a unique ID - a GUID
is unique!!  A GUID is also unique to the machine that it is generated on
(as far as I know).  I know that this isn't much use with regard to security
but my point was that it's unique.  I did follow the suggestion by pointing
out that he could use a system of concatenating together certain hardware
specific ID's


"Eudy Silva" <eudy@directnet.com> wrote in message
news:3ED95720.70406@directnet.com...
> Hi Mike,
>
> I don't get it. What kind of uniqueness will be
> achieved by using a GUID? I mean, how is this going
> to be used for protection since the calculated
> value is system independent?
>
> Eudy
>
> Mike Collins wrote:
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > We do exactly the same thing!  I found the easiest way to generate a
unique
> > ID is to create a new GUID using the CoCreateGuid function, thus:
> >
> >    AnsiString szGUID = NULL;
> >    GUID guid;
> >    if (CoCreateGuid(&guid)==S_OK)
> >    {
> >       OLECHAR cBuff[50];
> >       ZeroMemory(cBuff, sizeof(cBuff));
> >       if ((StringFromGUID2(guid, cBuff, 50))==(MAX_GUID_SIZE+1))
> >       {
> >          szGUID = AnsiString(cBuff);
> >       }
> >    }
> >
> > Alternatively, you could concatenate together several other pieces of
> > information which is specific to the target PC i.e. Computer Name,
Domain
> > Name, MAC address, IP address etc.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Mike C
>
>