Neo-Desktop/WindowsXPKg: Keygen for Windows XP(github.com)
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Neo-Desktop/WindowsXPKg: Keygen for Windows XP
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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
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]
[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwWB4TbGUCo
[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwWB4TbGUCo
The private key was small but I suppose it was considered adequate at the time of release; it was cracked a long time ago (late 2009 was when I first learned of it) and an earlier keygen exists. Stuff like this tends to remain private/hard-to-discover, but I'm not surprised to see it publicised now.
Here's some more details:
https://sabah.forumotion.com/t333-all-you-need-to-know-about...
The key phrase is at the end: "Therefore, the complexity of computing the private key k is O(2^31)"
Here's some more details:
https://sabah.forumotion.com/t333-all-you-need-to-know-about...
The key phrase is at the end: "Therefore, the complexity of computing the private key k is O(2^31)"
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
[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.
The one person (Empress) that knows how to crack Denuvo refuses to share any details, and I think they recently had some kind of mental breakdown and will no longer be making any new game patches.
I reinstalled XP so many times back in the day that I still have an installation key memorized.
H7c97-c67jb-g6rqr-p6hwy-tmq6w
FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8
That's the one I remember.
Nice
we are bounded thought space and time via that key
The one! :)
Hey old buddy.
yup!
LOL, that's the one.
cgj2m-cftxy-w4rbj-bwtgb-vh2cb
POSReady 2009 is lighter, has more updates and is volume activated, so a cleaner option all around.
Seems to be a fork of the original https://github.com/TheMCHK/WindowsXPKg
Even that is apparently not the original; see Endermanch's Actual creator of XP Keygen / Future of XP Key Generation https://github.com/TheMCHK/WindowsXPKg/issues/5 .
Does it comes with a catchy tracker soundtrack?
Wasn't the XP source code leaked some time ago?
Couldn't someone just modify it to remove the key check?
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
Wow. Color me shocked.
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.
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.
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.