Interpreting Customers Embedded FingerPrint

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## Interpreting Customers Embedded FingerPrint

When a valid Authorization Request Code is input into the Manual-Activator in off-line mode, the embedded FingerPrint is extracted from the code and displayed.

The code will either contain the embed-length FingerPrint from the users machine or a special FingerPrint value called the "blank" value.

### Actual Embedded FingerPrint Value

If the displayed embedded FingerPrint is just a number (E.G.: 123456), this represents the embedded FingerPrint from the users machine based on the FingerPrint flags that you have set in your license. In this case, to some degree (depending on how many and which FingerPrint flags you set in your license) the embedded FingerPrint is a unique identifier of the users machine. (See: FingerPrint Viewing)

### "Blank" Embedded FingerPrint Value

If the embedded FingerPrint is displayed as: "2875373 (BLANK VALUE)" this will indicate that you are using no FingerPrint flags at all in your license. In this case, the value has nothing to do with the users machine and all users who generate the same Authorization Request, will generate the same Request Code and therefore - the same embedded FingerPrint.