There is no way to get HWID from a serial number.

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zksxmk12
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There is no way to get HWID from a serial number.

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I'm really concerned about a serial number created without HWID field.

If the serial number what I mentioned above is leaked due to my carelessness, My software will be free to anyone. I want to prevent this.

Currently, A Program packed by VMProtect can get information of someone's license by calling VMProtectGetSerialNumberData. but there is no HWID information in VMProtectSerialNumberData structure!!

I hope to let my program block all the execution if an user run it with a license created without HWID field.

Could you suggest any good idea or improve the current SDK?
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Re: There is no way to get HWID from a serial number.

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If you want to block a leaked license you don't need to change anything in your program/our SDK. You need just add a leaked license into blacklist (import license at the "Licenses" tab and switch on the field "Blocked") and protect your software. Anyway our SDK can not provide you information about HWID from a serial number.
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Re: There is no way to get HWID from a serial number.

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Thanks for your opinion. I've known about blacklisting.
But the software already released cannot be recalled.
I've developed my software on a small scale by myself.
Hence I don't want to use WEB License Manager so I hope to remain my software offline-licensing. Can you give me a good idea?
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Re: There is no way to get HWID from a serial number.

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I cannot give you any idea because I don't understand what problem you want to solve. If your released version cannot be "changed" on the customer side all changes in a new version will be useless.
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Re: There is no way to get HWID from a serial number.

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Umm.. I'm just wondering why VMProtectSerialNumberData includes all the information except only HWID field. I heard that V3 is about to be released. I think it is not quite difficult to add HWID field to the structure before releasing. Isn't it?
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Re: There is no way to get HWID from a serial number.

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Unfortunately we are not going to add this feature in 3.0
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