UIN?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.12.2007, 13:41

What is the UIN? I've noticed I have a different one every time I log in.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.12.2007, 14:28

hm, you don't have different UINs every time you log in - I am shure

UIN = UserIdentificationNumber

It's the number of your account. You can find it in your profile, in the in-game help, when you visit your showcase from the warehouse.... and so on

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.12.2007, 15:06

No, not the UID. I know what my UID is. UIN seems to be in every link you click when you're logged in.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.12.2007, 17:19

I would say it is like a temporary log in information. I think it would be better to say it is like a cookie except inside the url so having a correct one will allow access to the account. Every few hours or so, you are automatically logged off and the UIN is deleted from the system so it is no longer valid. After you log in again, your account is randomly generated a new UIN and will be valid for that session until you log out or the system logs you out. If you log in again before your previous UIN is deleted, you are still assigned a new UIN but the previous UIN is still valid. I did a few experiments with this and found it consists of 32 hexdecimal values. This leaves a maximum of 16^32 or 340,282,366,???,???,???,???,???,???,???,??? different combinations. Sorry I could fill in the ?s because my calculator can't calculate that much.

Tell me if I missed anything.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13.12.2007, 18:31

Yeah, I guess it's a MD5 hash of something. Perhaps account name, system time and such.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 14.12.2007, 02:37

ooops