• my first crack => keygen

    From Jokker@77:1/131 to All on Tue Feb 18 20:39:52 2020
    [A repost from a lost message]

    Well seems like the right place to brag a bit about my minor accomplishments
    :D

    I managed to write my first crack for some mail tossing software for my BBS (Jmail) and that led me to eventually write my first keygen for said software!

    Gotta say, pretty exciting finally managing to cross a few things off the
    young hacker me bucketlist. I would imagine I'll publish the keygen
    eventually although the audience is probably limited to me at best. Still
    it's fun to have figured it all out, might try my hand at some others in the future.

    For tools, I used IDA Pro 5.0 (the free one) and dosbox-x (the debugger was super useful.

    Anyone else dig into that kind of thing? Got any stories, tips, tricks for reverse engineering?

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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to Jokker on Tue Feb 18 23:18:34 2020
    I managed to write my first crack for some mail tossing software for my BBS (Jmail) and that led me to eventually write my first keygen for said software!

    Gotta say, pretty exciting finally managing to cross a few things off the young hacker me bucketlist. I would imagine I'll publish the keygen eventually although the audience is probably limited to me at best. Still it's fun to have figured it all out, might try my hand at some others in the future.

    Congratulation on getting your "Cracker" patch. Last thing I cracked was Ghostbusters II on the C64, I imagine things have become a lot different from the days of looking for the keywheel answers via a hex editor and wiping them all clean, lol.

    Nick still runs a full DOS bbs. Come to think of it, you are both in Ontario, both on SciNet, both members of Region 12 in Fidonet, both NCs of nets in
    said Region. Hmmmm, is there something to all of this?

    Anyone else dig into that kind of thing? Got any stories, tips, tricks
    for reverse engineering?

    You might have just opened up pandoras box. I know ryan has been looking for for keys for some old dos doors, and I have a list of dos interbbs doors I would like to add to SciNet but no one can find keys for them anywhere.
    Be careful what you ask for, lol.

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  • From Atreyu@77:1/103 to Jokker on Tue Feb 18 22:50:52 2020
    On 18 Feb 20 20:39:52, Jokker said the following to All:

    Anyone else dig into that kind of thing? Got any stories, tips, tricks for reverse engineering?

    I'm the current developer of the D'Bridge mailer, which used to be commercial software.

    If two D'Bridge mailers connected with the same license key, they would purposely crash the system.

    Atreyu

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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to Atreyu on Wed Feb 19 00:48:28 2020
    If two D'Bridge mailers connected with the same license key, they would purposely crash the system.

    I bet you Troy could crack it and release a keygen for it@

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  • From Embalmed@77:1/133 to Jokker on Wed Feb 19 00:31:10 2020
    For tools, I used IDA Pro 5.0 (the free one) and dosbox-x (the debugger was super useful.

    Anyone else dig into that kind of thing? Got any stories, tips, tricks
    for reverse engineering?

    The last thing I cracked was mIRC nag screen LOL.
    That being said I have been wanting to play around with the dosbox debugger,
    I came across this article https://cloakedthargoid.wordpress.com/hacking-with-dosbox-debugger/

    My assembly is horrible it never quite sinks in but I've managed to jmp a few calls ;)

    Anyway I'm interested.

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  • From Dumas Walker@77:1/115 to NETSURGE on Wed Feb 19 18:46:00 2020
    You might have just opened up pandoras box. I know ryan has been looking for for keys for some old dos doors, and I have a list of dos interbbs doors I would like to add to SciNet but no one can find keys for them anywhere.
    Be careful what you ask for, lol.

    I am also interested in old dos door keys. Most of the ones I have are registered, but there are a few that are not registerable any more that I
    would like to get keyed.


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  • From jokker@77:1/100 to Netsurge on Thu Feb 20 08:32:54 2020
    Congratulation on getting your "Cracker" patch. Last thing I cracked was Ghostbusters II on the C64, I imagine things have become a lot different from the days of looking for the keywheel answers via a hex editor and wiping them all clean, lol.

    Woo, thanks! Suck it boyscouts, now that's a badge!

    Nick still runs a full DOS bbs. Come to think of it, you are both in Ontario, both on SciNet, both members of Region 12 in Fidonet, both NCs
    of nets in said Region. Hmmmm, is there something to all of this?


    LOL
    You might have just opened up pandoras box. I know ryan has been looking for for keys for some old dos doors, and I have a list of dos interbbs doors I would like to add to SciNet but no one can find keys for them anywhere. Be careful what you ask for, lol.

    :) if I start doing it then others will come! and soon all the doors will be unlocked. Hmmm with talk like that I'm gonna need some LSD I think.

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  • From jokker@77:1/100 to Netsurge on Thu Feb 20 08:36:32 2020
    On 19 Feb 2020, Netsurge said the following...

    If two D'Bridge mailers connected with the same license key, they wou purposely crash the system.


    See that's just amazing and pretty smart too! Did more then two people ever
    use D'Bridge back in the day? :P

    I bet you Troy could crack it and release a keygen for it@

    Damn straight, just gotta know the right tools for the job.
    "Hey Nick, here's a case of beer can I have a key now? Or do I have to
    do...ya know..the other thing? again?" :D

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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to jokker on Thu Feb 20 10:53:24 2020
    :) if I start doing it then others will come! and soon all the doors
    will be unlocked. Hmmm with talk like that I'm gonna need some LSD I think.

    As my boss says, we all have to do something to get us through the day.

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  • From jokker@77:1/100 to Dumas Walker on Fri Feb 21 08:19:02 2020
    I suppose we should make a list and then we'll have an idea of the top
    hitlist.

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  • From Analog@77:1/131 to Jokker on Fri Feb 21 09:01:16 2020
    [A repost from a lost message]

    The original did go out, postdated 2/09. I thought they had dissappeared too.

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  • From Plt@77:1/116 to Jokker on Tue Nov 3 12:00:00 2020
    Gotta say, pretty exciting finally managing to cross a few things off
    the young hacker me bucketlist. I would imagine I'll publish the
    keygen eventually although the audience is probably limited to me at
    best. Still it's fun to have figured it all out, might try my hand at
    some others in the future.

    Did you decompile the program in to asm?

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  • From Plt@77:1/116 to Atreyu on Tue Nov 3 12:03:00 2020
    If two D'Bridge mailers connected with the same license key, they
    would purposely crash the system.

    Is that considered violation of U.S Law Hacking is illegal.

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  • From jokker@77:1/100 to Plt on Wed Nov 4 09:39:22 2020
    Gotta say, pretty exciting finally managing to cross a few things off the young hacker me bucketlist. I would imagine I'll publish the
    keygen eventually although the audience is probably limited to me at best. Still it's fun to have figured it all out, might try my hand at some others in the future.

    Did you decompile the program in to asm?

    Yeah, I used the free IDA you can get anywhere on the net for free.

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