Hardcoded md5 serial number crack

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Originally Posted by TmC

There is no problem with patching the program. (inlining rather than patching, since it is part of a suite that has also a hardware part and the hardware is checking for program integrity at startup).

Unfortunately, the serial is checked also when requesting updates through the update routine, and even patching the program wont pass the server check.

The serial is passed in cleartext so a patch that simply gives one random hash to check does not work.

Yup. Thought so. Would you mind sharing the program name in a PM? Thanks.