When will Crapkey learn ???

Hi ppl,

Just thought of sharing my recent experiences on working with crypkey. Well after reading the excellent article by exefoliator, rest was cake walk. Earlier Crackz had explored the idea of patching, but after one is able to get the user key, one can generate infinite licenses either manually (Exefoilator's article) or using ckinfo (by thewd).

Well, here how it goes. The first application was a VB based, using Crypkey v5.4. The article by crackz titled "CrypKey Instant v5.0 Part 1", is still applicable and one is able to patch the required dll's. Exefoliator had mentioned in his article that The Master and User Keys are not as such visible to the ordinary user of a protected program. CrypKey uses them in an explicit call to a function by the name of "init_crypkey()", which expects three ASCIIz pointer and two dword arguments (in that order). The first ASCIIz pointer specifies the name plus path of the protected program; the second and third parameters reference the Master and User Key, respectively. So using smartcheck one can very easliy get both of them in matter of minutes.
The same applied to another VC++ application, I used Mutek Bugtrapper to get the User and Master keys.

Here goes the protection which is supposed to be battle proven. I wonder which battle ???

Excuse me i don't see the knowledge or experience you're sharing here!

what about a tuto like exefoliator did for Crapkey in the past.

any possible ideas on how to clean the Hard drive to remove the crapkey trial check from the HD without formatting ?

[Jay]

Excuse me i don't see the knowledge or experience you're sharing here!

sounds a bit harsh but I have to agree, though I'm sure we all know the feeling when you defeat a protection for the first time , a tutorial would be nice.

Yes, I know that there is very little knowledge shared. I had been working on crypkey for quite sometime and only recently i realised a sure fire way to get beyond crypkey protections. Hence, for the record, I posted it here.

Sure, I will write a tute on this soon and post it.

Mr Numagu, don't get too excited, the CrapKey version you recently successfully broke is 4+ years old already ! Todays modern tools will give you psuedo krypyonite powers to kill them.

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December 10, 2002

CrypKey SDK V6

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