├── .gitignore
├── .gitattributes
├── HWID Project
    ├── Main.cpp
    ├── Release
    │   ├── x64
    │   │   ├── HWID Project.exe
    │   │   ├── HWID Project.pdb
    │   │   ├── HWID Project.iobj
    │   │   └── HWID Project.ipdb
    │   └── x86
    │   │   └── HWID Project.exe
    ├── HWID Project.vcxproj.user
    ├── HWID Project.vcxproj.filters
    └── HWID Project.vcxproj
├── LICENSE
├── HWID Project.sln
└── README.md


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 1 | MIT License
 2 | 
 3 | Copyright (c) 2020 Heath Howren
 4 | 
 5 | Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 6 | of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
 7 | in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
 8 | to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
 9 | copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
10 | furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
11 | 
12 | The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
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14 | 
15 | THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
16 | IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
17 | FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
18 | AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
19 | LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
20 | OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
21 | SOFTWARE.
22 | 


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 1 | # HWID Info Grabber
 2 | 
 3 | ## Introduction
 4 | 
 5 | This project is an example of how computer components have hardware identifiers that can be used by developers to lock applications to specific computers. <br />
 6 | This code is from a [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78JToBCejdU) where I explain how to control distribution of applications and prevent piracy.
 7 | 
 8 | ## Code Samples
 9 | 
10 | Retrieving HDD information, the HDD serial is most commonly used for locking applications.
11 | ```cpp
12 | 	TCHAR volumeName[MAX_PATH + 1] = { 0 };
13 | 	TCHAR fileSystemName[MAX_PATH + 1] = { 0 };
14 | 	DWORD serialNumber = 0;
15 | 	DWORD maxComponentLen = 0;
16 | 	DWORD fileSystemFlags = 0;
17 | 	if (GetVolumeInformation(
18 | 		_T("C:\\"),
19 | 		volumeName,
20 | 		ARRAYSIZE(volumeName),
21 | 		&serialNumber,
22 | 		&maxComponentLen,
23 | 		&fileSystemFlags,
24 | 		fileSystemName,
25 | 		ARRAYSIZE(fileSystemName)))
26 | 	{
27 | 		std::cout << "Volume Name: " << volumeName << std::endl;
28 | 		std::cout << "HDD Serial: " << serialNumber << std::endl; 
29 | 		std::cout << "File System Type: " << fileSystemName << std::endl;
30 | 		std::cout << "Max Component Length: " << maxComponentLen << std::endl;
31 | 	}
32 | ```
33 | Retrieving the computer name, this is easily changeable by the user.
34 | ```cpp
35 |     	TCHAR computerName[MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH + 1];
36 | 	DWORD size = sizeof(computerName) / sizeof(computerName[0]);
37 | 	if (GetComputerName(
38 | 		computerName,
39 | 		&size))
40 | 	{
41 | 		std::cout << "Computer Name: " << computerName << std::endl;
42 | 	}
43 | ```
44 | Retrieving the CPU hash.
45 | ```cpp
46 |     int cpuinfo[4] = { 0, 0, 0, 0 }; //EAX, EBX, ECX, EDX
47 |     __cpuid(cpuinfo, 0);
48 |     char16_t hash = 0;
49 |     char16_t* ptr = (char16_t*)(&cpuinfo[0]);
50 |     for (char32_t i = 0; i < 8; i++)
51 |     hash += ptr[i];
52 |     std::cout << "CPU Hash: " << hash << std::endl;
53 | ```
54 | 


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