Can you tell us where you found the patch that generates a unique password? Post the patch from there, maybe? We might get something starting from that patch.

I bet you can read the mac address with an mxj net object, and then do something fancy with it, like md5 hashing (for example with a javascript snippet like this one: http://aktuell.de.selfhtml.org/artikel/javascript/md5/).

Thanks for the replies...

"Can you tell us where you found the patch that generates a unique password? Post the patch from there, maybe? We might get something starting from that patch. "

This is the link from the forum: https://cycling74.com/forums/sharing-is-fun-simple-password-generator

There are some patches for generate passwords.

Possibly you could use a free executable to get it, there's one here for PC:

Includes source code, so someone adept at making externals could utilize that. Otherwise, you could include their .exe along with your patch to have the user get the ID manually.

Certainly there's something similar on Mac. The mxj sounds like a good solution too, though the user needs to have Java correctly installed... would be best as an external, I think.

Unfortunately I'm not a Java programmer or other... I saw an authorization window in MacPOD http://thirdmonk.com/MacPOD.html made with max but I dont know how was made. Should be useful cycling74 to have a ready made example for those who make standalone applications and want to sell or protect their application.

I'm the author of MacPOD. I've posted an external object, MachineID, under the Tools section, that returns the Mac serial number. Includes source. see: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1529

Tools: MachineID

Alternatively, just run the following command with the excellent shell object:

system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | awk '/Serial Number/ {print $NF}'

Thank you very much Chris and congrats for your app!