The Sandman
Registry Crawler - Conclusions
Wed Dec 9 19:59:01 1998


Greetings Crackers,

My Question 4...

The method I asked everyone to try out, which involved creating the 4D Key yourself in your system registry and then testing the program to see how it handled this key was just one of many methods we can use in order to help us to figure out what makes this program tick. In fact, this particular method is better suited to those programs that have no registration screen at all, where instead the software authors send the User a kind of .REG key instead. In this case trying different combinations of values to a particular key would make much better sense.

In fact, using this method on this program is a bit like trying to break open a hazel nut with a hammer while the hazel nut itself is flying through the air!. A hit and miss affair. But isn't being a newbie and trying to crack a program a hit and miss affair at first!.


My Question 5... Then asks you to try to crack open this program in your own way, hopefully you would now have a good idea on how to implement a more direct approach from the knowledge you gained from question 4. This now balances the two questions out.

How many times have we come across weird looking strings such as "YMA19X@24$Z%" and tried to register a program with it only to find it's not the right code and then ignored the significance of this text string!. I've done it in the past and no doubt you all have at some time or other. Usually they are there for a purpose, the more unlikly it is, the greater the possibility that it is important to us!.

To everyone who tackled the task of laying open the serial generation routines ( you all know who you are ) your work is greatly appreciated by myself & everyone else on this forum..:)

To those that found new knowledge where the light now shines more brightly through the crack, but still could not fully complete this project then worry not.. Now that your mind is filled with new knowledge the next project will become less daunting and more rewarding for you..:)

The next project will begin just as-soon-as I can find the next suitable program to work on, I will post a message on the Newbie Forum when all is ready. In the meantime explore Registry Crawler as much as you want, you never know, there may yet be some gems hidden away in its code..

Kind Regards to All,

The Sandman

Hey Jeff!, got any raindeer meat going spare *grin*