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CrackZ's Reverse Engineering Page (1997-2007)

Introduction

Welcome! on this fine you have reached CrackZ's Reverse Engineering Page, on the web now for 10 years, despite many censorship attempts. Amongst these pages you will find what is now a very rare commodity on todays commercialised web, a site where you can acquire all the skills you need to become a competent reverse engineer. This site provides information for analysts and protectionists alike, focusing mainly on the protection schemes of Window's software whilst debunking some of the mystery surrounding the sublime art of 'copy protection'. Everything here is yours for free, I hope you will enjoy taking some time to look around.

In the last few years commercial profit motives have transformed the nature of web information and searching forever, a bitter irony indeed that in our rush to embrace a world of 'free information', more and more is now hidden, coves of free knowledge have been shunned in the stampede for 'e-commerce' gold, snake oil products infest the web. This site is fiercely against these trends, but is also realistic in that it will make not one iota of difference. Upon my pages you will find many teachings that should enable you (with a little work) to reverse engineer most of the software you'll ever encounter (probably saving you a considerable amount of money in the long term).

On this site you will find no dubious advertising banners, irritating pop ups, endless loops of smut site referrals or top 100 this / that or other voting links, they couldn't pay me enough to promote their useless products anyway, this site aims to provide you with the basics to start reverse engineering, much of the material here is at a level where little more than a 'willingness to learn' is assumed, of course if you delve a little deeper you will (I hope) find much more.



Click the logo above to access the KGL essays page (frozen 2003).

14/10/7

The Journal 4 - Proof that I do help interested crackers once in a while ;-).

Lots more subtle fixes to various pages.

8/7/5 - Some updates.

Dinkey Dongle Developer's Manual - (564k).
Eutron SmartKey Dumper - (90k).
FLAIR tools v4.9 for IDA - Fast library recognition for IDA (1Mb).
HASP/Hardlock API Monitor v0.07 - API monitoring utility for HASP/Hardlock (979k).
HL-DUMP v2.0 - Latest Hardlock dumper by Sp0Raw.
IDA Tutorial by |nAbOo|
- Must read guide to using IDA for newbies (502k).
Interactive Disassembler Pro (IDA) v4.9 SDK - for making your own plugins (6.37Mb's).
Sentinel De-VM - IDC script for IDA, for use with the Sentinel shell (1k).
SentinelLM Vendor ID to Serial Number - Calculate a SentinelLM SDK installation S/N for your desired Vendor Id (619k).
WinManage v1.0 - 605k.
Wlscgen.exe For You - Creating your own Wlscgen courtesy of Mayaputra.
Wkdmpusb - Unverified dumper for USB Wibu keys (28k).

New Pages : IDA.
Updated Pages : Dongles, FLEXlm, Idseeds, Keygens, Links, Protect, Tools, Whatsnew.

Visitors & Webmasters : Please bookmark this site when you find it and update your links ;-). If you've linked me and I haven't linked you, drop me an e-mail.
http://www.woodmann.com/crackz/index.html OR from the RET homepage

CrackZ's logo kindly done by zouzouni (thanks!).


Anti-Debugging / Hacking Papers
(useful for shareware authors, protect better!)

Dongle Reverse Engineering
(Dallas iButton, DESKey, Hardlock, HASP, KeyLok, Proteq, Sentinel, Wibu)

FLEXlm / SentinelLM
(updated for 2004)

Key Generator Sources
(includes cryptography section)

Miscellaneous / Newbies / Packers
(browse and learn)

Time Trials / Tools
(get equipped in 30 days)

Whats New / Visual Basic

If you are a new visitor, you might like to read my Getting Started Guide which may save you a considerable amount of time, if you are interested in reading a little about the history of my site, (including the many censorship attempts I have had to endure) as well as a few personal facts about me, then click here. You might also find my SoftICE Installation Guide and SoftICE Command Reference useful too.

Legal Notice

After many legal problems, I am obliged to point out that this site is an information resource and a copyrighted original work by the author. Your acceptance of the terms of my disclaimer are expressly implied. Please understand here and now that there are definitely NOT any 'cracks' here, they aren't hard to find, go to your favourite search engine and type in 'warez' and you won't ever need to learn anything. I have never intended to collect law suits from annoyed software companies, sadly EmuLive Imaging Corporation didn't understand the real face of the 'warez scene' and proceeded to waste their money on expensive solicitors regardless.

Message Boards

The latest trend in our community seems now to be the 'Message Board', probably many of these existed a long time before I stumbled across them. I'm more for pooling information in a few places rather than spreading it with a knife 1cm thick since constantly checking these is a sure job for a lifetime. However, if you want to quickly seek information from the RCE community, I dare say they have a use, the quality of response remains quite variable.

AntiCrack.de Message Board :- Many forums with experienced moderators, one of the best places for your crypto queries (roy/Thigo).
DataRescue's Message Board :- Tips, tricks and fixes for IDA (the best disassembler), also mildly entertaining to listen to Pierre's latest rants about 'why the reverse engineering community has it in for him'.
ExeTool's Message Board :- Although the ExeTool's site itself is now fairly out of date, the forum lives on and is frequented by some of the best (and worst) in the 'scene' for unpacking and tooling matters.
Fravia's Message Board :- General reversing issues / matters (also acts as a starting point for Fravia's Tools of our Trade discussions related to IDA/SoftICE and more).
HCUnix Message Board :- For *nix reversing (new forum hosted by Woodmann).

Contacting Me (E-Mail / IRC) & Submissions

I can be contacted using my longstanding e-mail at CrackZ__(at)hotmail(point)com (note the 2 underscores), alternatively you can try ICQ (#131635002, note that I don't use ICQ very much at all). I welcome any comments, key generator sources, information, scene news, Shania Twain concert tickets (I should also add that I've now seen Shania live in Hyde Park), suggestions & tutorial submissions (even the 404s which some day never I may fix).

Before sending ANY e-mail, please take the time to read my FAQ, else I definitely won't answer. Please do NOT send me cracking requests or lists of software you want (even if you see them featured on my site), such requests will almost certainly be deleted and ignored. When I have some free time I can often be found on IRC (nick CrackZ or ZEN-<some_suffix>), you could also visit #cracking4newbies on EFNet where I idle (far too much).


Download the cRACKER's nOTES (recommended). WKT Site.
The cRACKER's nOTES by TORN@DO are a very useful and well
managed source of reverse engineering tips (233k).
Spanish Reversers might care to download the entire WKT Site (837k).

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