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Hi i know how to encrypt the raspberry pi with the cpu serial but I also want to know how i can do the same with the Mac address thanks.

It's not sensible.

Try this
sudo ifdown eth0
sudo ifconfig eth0 hw ether AB:BC:CD:DE:EF
sudo ifup eth0
then tell me why it's not sensible.

I understand it can be spoofed i just wanted to know how i can do a mac address encryption.

There is no point telling you, because it's not a sensible thing to do on Linux, Windows or OSX (because it's so easily spoofed).

On the Raspberry Pi the default b8:27:eb:xx:xx:xx MAC address is using the last six digits of the serial number anyway.

I not worried of it being spoofed i just wan to know how to do it.

grep the MAC use that as a key.

But it's a lousy key, there aren't enough bits in it and it's never going to be secure.
The height of security technology from the 1970s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard) is roughly the technique you'd be emulating.

To get any kind of security you need public/private keys with 2048 bits of entropy.

Enter the command: man gpg