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CrackZ's Reverse Engineering Page (1997-2010)

Introduction

Welcome! you have reached CrackZ's Reverse Engineering Page, on the web now for 13 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 realistic knowing 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).


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


31/1/9

You may or may not notice some difference, but this main page has now been completely re-written using CSS (21k -> 13k). In due course other pages will be reworked, please report any incompatibilities with your browser ;-). Expect lots more to follow soon.....

IDA page updated - New IDA SDK's v5.5 & v5.6 + updated news.

Visitors & Webmasters

Please bookmark this site and update your links ;-). If you've linked me and I haven't linked you, drop me an e-mail.

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 under 30 days)

Whats New / Visual Basic
(Latest additions & VB)

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 several 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 lawyers 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, they have a use, the quality of response can be quite variable and you are expected to have tried to help yourself before posting.

ExeTool's Message Board :- Although the ExeTool's site itself is now 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.

RCE Messageboard's Regroupment :- General reversing issues / matters. +Fravia's old board. Moderated capably by JMI & Woodmann.

Reverse Engineering Team Board :- General reversing board, lots of discussion of dongles, .NET, consoles, stenography.

Contacting Me

E-Mail: CrackZ__@hotmail.com (2 underscores).
Facebook: Coming shortly!.
ICQ: #131-635-002 (note that I don't use ICQ very much).
IRC: #cracking4newbies on EFNet (idle).

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 e-mail, please take the time to read my FAQ, else I may decide not to 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.


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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No site would be complete without the obligatory list of phoney e-mail addresses which should (we hope) annoy the e-mail address gathering spiders. On your way out you may care to read my personal greetings and some of the very positive feedback I've received whilst running this site, you might also like to read one of my favourite poems Footprints by Mary Stevenson which often provides me with the inspiration I need to continue.



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