// +build windows package xid import ( "fmt" "unsafe" "golang.org/x/sys/windows" ) func readPlatformMachineID() (string, error) { // source: https://github.com/shirou/gopsutil/blob/master/host/host_windows.go var h windows.Handle err := windows.RegOpenKeyEx(windows.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, windows.StringToUTF16Ptr(`SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography`), 0, windows.KEY_READ|windows.KEY_WOW64_64KEY, &h) if err != nil { return "", err } defer windows.RegCloseKey(h) const windowsRegBufLen = 74 // len(`{`) + len(`abcdefgh-1234-456789012-123345456671` * 2) + len(`}`) // 2 == bytes/UTF16 const uuidLen = 36 var regBuf [windowsRegBufLen]uint16 bufLen := uint32(windowsRegBufLen) var valType uint32 err = windows.RegQueryValueEx(h, windows.StringToUTF16Ptr(`MachineGuid`), nil, &valType, (*byte)(unsafe.Pointer(®Buf[0])), &bufLen) if err != nil { return "", err } hostID := windows.UTF16ToString(regBuf[:]) hostIDLen := len(hostID) if hostIDLen != uuidLen { return "", fmt.Errorf("HostID incorrect: %q\n", hostID) } return hostID, nil }