Earlier quoted context omitted.
H7c97-c67jb-g6rqr-p6hwy-tmq6w
FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8
That's the one I remember.
Neo-Desktop/WindowsXPKg: Keygen for Windows XP
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Re: Neo-Desktop/WindowsXPKg: Keygen for Windows XP
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
That forum post is an uncredited reprint of the years-earlier MSKey Readme [1], a brief history of which I've outlined in the first footnote on this blog post[2]. [1] https://bbs.kanxue.com/thread-10032.htm [2] https://tinyapps.org/blog/202304230700_xp_wpa.html
It's so odd to me that people are trying to RE an executable here. Like if I cracked a crypto system just for community credit I'd rather blog the algorithm than release a closed source executable. Seems to happen a lot in these cracking communities though.
If I remember correctly, MSKey4in1 (or one of the other keygens with similar functionality) was released with source code, but in general, you said it yourself: after all, "cracking communities" are effectively people who don't need source code to understand or modify software.
Re: Neo-Desktop/WindowsXPKg: Keygen for Windows XP
#24Wasn't the XP source code leaked some time ago? Couldn't someone just modify it to remove the key check?
This implies you can build it. I've not seen the leak but I doubt it's complete enough to perform a full, working build.
It can be built: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24640878
Re: Neo-Desktop/WindowsXPKg: Keygen for Windows XP
#25Wasn't the XP source code leaked some time ago? Couldn't someone just modify it to remove the key check?
Yes and yes (even without the source code) --- after all, cracks did exist for XP (and every version of Windows before and after it.)
The creation of a keygen, which doesn't require any modifications to the original software, is mainly for the challenge of doing so, and now that XP is out of support, historical/archival purposes.
Re: Neo-Desktop/WindowsXPKg: Keygen for Windows XP
#26This can't possibly work, there's not a single line of code in there that plays those sweet mod tunes that every good keygen plays when you start it. All kidding aside, this looks like a fork or reimplementation for the tool that got popular recently, based on a blog post from a few years back.
I've been setting up a WinXP PC for old games (Command & Conquers, etc) and re-discovered the "Fighting 4 FUN" multi-keygens (hundreds of EA games in a single 100KB-ish keygen) The music is delightful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE2uyF4PzNI
Classic. I think the latest multikeygen had 214 games? It's the largest one in the my collection. Fun fact, the older iterations of the keygen had different music![0]