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What is Hardware ID?

Some of the forums I visit regularly sell premium software and they use hardware id authentication to prevent leakage. That is, first they send you a program to run to grab your HWID, you tell them your HWID, they store it in a database, and then they send you the actual program.

If your HWID is not in the database, the program will not run. So what is Hardware-ID and how is it generated? Why is my HWID different depending on the programmer who sends me the HWID-grabber?

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A hardware ID is (hopefully) a unique identifier generated from serial numbers present in cases like your processor and network card. There is a standard algorithm, so it varies between individual developers.

In the previous question, algorithms were discussed.



How to quickly get the hardware ID in C #?

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Each program can define in its own way how to read the hardware ID. An even more specific program encrypts the identifier before sending it over the Internet.



Here is a program (also used as a DLL) that can read and display your computer / hardware ID without encryption! http://www.soft.tahionic.com/download-hdd_id/index.html

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