What is the standard format of Device ID?

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Hello,

I am trying to lock my mobile application unless user enters the product key.
I don't want to use a static Serial Number. I produce a dynamic serial number
from the Device ID and then user gets the product key with submitting the serial.

However, I would like to know if Device ID format changes from machine to machine.
I performed a search in google but I couldn't find an answer to my question.

If you know, would you please let me know.

Regards.

Posted 22-Jan-11 7:41am

JUNEYT

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Nish Nishant · Answer 1 · 2011-01-22T08:38:00

Solution 2

If you treat the device id as a string of characters, and then generate a key based on that, then it would not be a problem if different devices had different device id formats.

And in any case it would be quite improbable that different vendors would use a similar format.

Posted 22-Jan-11 8:38am

Nish Nishant

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Christian Graus · Answer 2 · 2011-01-22T07:49:00

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Why not generate a hash from the device ID, so that your format doesn't change regardless of the format of the original ID ?

Posted 22-Jan-11 7:49am

Christian Graus