How WinXP generates Activation Serials?

mmmhh Well as this topic started about WinXP and it's keys, I hope this post isn't out of place.

The Keygen authors' readme was indeed very intertesting . I did notice that he place VLK limits (for the 640 series which of course IS VLK) between 500 and 600.

I did some checking at work and none of the VLK keys (purchased as recently as last week) are within that range. Mine ( from 3 weeks ago) is around 800000(X) ( not including the last number (X) which I'm assuming is some sort of chcksum) . I wonder what's going to happen to all those "invalid" but legit purchased keys when SP2 arrives ? After reading that SP2 will be more of WINXP SE and it will "break" lots of app's currently out there, I think I'm going to stay away from SP2 for atleast a couple of months after it's release. I don't feel like being a guineapig.


just my 2c

Cheers

Star Buck