Systems and methods for encrypting unique failure codes to aid in preventing fraudulent exchanges of information handling system components

A method comprising:

• determining a component of an information handling system as a source of failure of the information handling system;
• generating a unique failure code associated with the failure;
• encrypting the unique failure code to generate an encrypted unique failure code;
• and
• displaying the encrypted unique failure code to a display device of the information handling system;
• wherein the encrypted unique failure code is capable of being decrypted to match identifying information associated with the decrypted unique failure code with records associated with the information handling system and the component determined as the source of failure.

An article of manufacture comprising:

• a non-transitory computer readable medium;
• and
• computer-executable instructions carried on the computer readable medium, the instructions readable by a management controller of an information handling system, the instructions, when read and executed, for causing the management controller to:
• determine a component of the information handling system as a source of failure of the information handling system;
• generate a unique failure code associated with the failure;
• encrypt the unique failure code to generate an encrypted unique failure code;
• and
• display the encrypted unique failure code to a display device of the information handling system;
• wherein the encrypted unique failure code is capable of being decrypted to match identifying information associated with the decrypted unique failure code with records associated with the information handling system and the component determined as the source of failure.