[Bug 10040] Steam crashes during the startup

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10040


Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net>  2007-11-11 06:42:19 ---
Hello,

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In either case, this can't be something hard-coded in wine.inf for example.
This _have to be_ randomly generated during the creation of the WINEPREFIX. The
simplest solution would be use of "uuidgen" program (see Steam's HOWTO on
appDB).
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Hard coded wouldn't be a good idea, yes.
In steam this key is used (among other registry keys) to encrypt certain data
on the client computer, for instance your steam password.
The generated data is stored in ClientRegistry.blob

Anyway this key is very important and should be present in wine.
There are several other appliances from microsoft (and 3rd party ones) which
use this key (as seed) to compute information specific to client computers
(mostly as companion/supplement to ProductId).

Regards


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