peterg22 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Dear Monks,
I am looking for a way to find out the mac address of the network card in my PC using Perl. I am interested in encrypting data prior to storing it in a database, and was considering using host machine's mac address as part of the pass phrase. I believe that it would make for an added level of security during decryption as well. I have had a good look around CPAN, but I'm not aware of anything that talks directly to hardware. Has anyone else managed to do this ?
I am looking for a way to find out the mac address of the network card in my PC using Perl. I am interested in encrypting data prior to storing it in a database, and was considering using host machine's mac address as part of the pass phrase. I believe that it would make for an added level of security during decryption as well. I have had a good look around CPAN, but I'm not aware of anything that talks directly to hardware. Has anyone else managed to do this ?
TIA
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Re: Accessing NIC/mac address ?
by PrimeLord (Pilgrim) on Feb 14, 2002 at 17:12 UTC | |
by earthboundmisfit (Chaplain) on Feb 14, 2002 at 17:26 UTC | |
by Rex(Wrecks) (Curate) on Feb 14, 2002 at 17:50 UTC | |
by earthboundmisfit (Chaplain) on Feb 14, 2002 at 18:19 UTC | |
by rob_au (Abbot) on Feb 15, 2002 at 03:50 UTC | |
Re: Accessing NIC/mac address ?
by rob_au (Abbot) on Feb 15, 2002 at 03:43 UTC | |
by peterg22 (Novice) on Feb 15, 2002 at 12:42 UTC | |
Re: Accessing NIC/mac address ?
by belg4mit (Prior) on Feb 15, 2002 at 04:00 UTC |
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