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make digest and uuid of the running machine
Get UUID of the running machine, and make sha256 digest of the combined hardware and OS info with custom secret. Supports Linux, MacOS and Windows.
npm i --save machine-digest
const md = require('machine-digest')
const uuid = md.uuid() // sha256 hex digest of combined info
const UUID = md.UUID() // sha256 hex digest of only hardware UUID
const rawUUID = md.rawUUID() // raw hardware UUID
// get summary, default make hex digest
md.get()
{ digest: 'a5d53e51a35755257c3c5fb38f77ec9bd401ab9241803216875de36648c2',
machine:
{ OS_TYPE: 'Darwin',
OS_PLATFORM: 'darwin',
OS_ARCH: 'x64',
OS_CPU: 'Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4278U CPU @ 2.60GHz.Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4278U CPU @ 2.60GHz.Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4278U CPU @ 2.60GHz.Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4278U CPU @ 2.60GHz',
id: '576D4728-C140-523C-B801-EFE5EIUHF7F9' } }
// get different digests
md.digest('hex')
'542a579ca9357e9797d2e11316689bfbdb52ba51013729b8db56c169a74cc83b'
md.digest('ascii')
'T*W\u001c)5~\u0017\u0017Ra\u0013\u0016h\u001b{[R:Q\u00017)8[VAi\'LH;'
// add or overwrite machine attribute
const attrs = {hostname: os.hostname()}
md.put(attrs)
// change encryption secret
md.secret = "your secret"
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make digest and uuid of the running machine
We found that machine-digest demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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