What it the BIOS Serial Number Maximum length?
I am developing an activation application, which I need to collect the BIOS serial number to identify the PC, the Application combine the BIOS serial Number to other data, which will be encrypted, I need my data not to exceed the block size of the encryption to prevent building another block which means a longer activation string. I need to make sure that the BIOS serial number's length will not exceed a certain value, if it is less, I can add some data, but if it exceeds I cannot trim it since I need to make sure there is no activation key works for two PCs.
My question simply is: What is the maximum length of the BIOS Serial number ? and how I can get these standards?
P.S. doing trim made us a great problem since there are some serials are too longer than the requested value, so there exists a key running more than one PC.
Regards,
All these standards are defined in the SMBIOS tables and AFAIK there is not a maximum or fixed length for the BIOS serial number, this is just a null terminated string.
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