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How to "UNDONGLE" the hell out of it
Updated January 1999
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"This is an enemy"
(1941)
+HCU project 3
How to undongle
(1997, 1998)
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Dongle cracking... hardware checks cracking... well... dongle
protection cracking has long been a "bete noire" of all crackers, old
crackers' songs sing it, old crackers paintings show the terrible lost battles... so we
decided, in may 1997, to start working on it, we wanted to show how useless even these
supposed 'extremely hard' hardware protections resulted against Internet +team work.
In fact -as you will read- most of the times the programmers that have prepared the
dongle-based protection schemes have been blinded by their greed... as we all know a
'commercial' approach to programming turns ALWAYS into a programming catastrophe (just
look at Micro$oft's crashing programs and OSs if you need any confirmation of this matter
of fact :-)
This +HCU 'dongle' project has made "history" in the scene (of course I know exactly who is continuously looking at this page) and has
been allowed thank to the first (very sound) contributions by Xoanon and Zafer, good
crackers that have 'broken the ice' and allowed the splendid Renaissance of these studies
that we are enjoying now (January 1998)
When (and if :-) you'll have finished reading the marvellous essays on this page you'll
never believe that once upon a time (couple of years ago) many crackers were scared
to death from these relatively easy to defeat hardware protections (well... some of them
ARE indeed pretty though -as you'll see)
Some of the essay on this page are VERY ADVANCED reading, and I'm sure that my advanced
readers will find all this VERY INSTRUCTIVE
Of course, as usual this is a 'work in progress' section of my site... and you have the
two usual choices: 1) You just leech and try to use what you learn here in order to gain
some money for yourself =you slime :-( or 2) You contribute and, building on the shoulders
of all others, allow others to build on your shoulders =you +cracker :-) |
Sentinel, Hasp... commercial protectors...
how much money should you actually PAY us for having demonstrated how bad implemented your
protections are? (Note the 'implemented' bit :-)
And you, programmers, and you
that have trusted dongles, believing them to be good protections. You that
soon find your own 'dongle-protected' programs regged (and undongled) on any luser's
warez site? Did you actually believe the crap
written by the dongle-fabricants? Do you believe hypes? Haven't you learned yet to
see THROUGH things? To reverse!
How much do you actually owe us for showing you (for free)
the truth?
Yet don't worry... we don't need, nor want, your money... what we do, we do
because we enjoy it, not because we want useless bucks... that's the real reason,
I'm afraid, that "non-commercial" reversers will always remain (quite) ahead in this lind of games... |
Tools for dongle artists
9 January 1998
wkpe120.zip (215.763 Kb): Wkpe "Keypro":
A dongle emulator from Taiwan, wkpe supports all win-dos boxes, incluse
dos4gw, and has been sent to me, as a present, by a taiwanese programmer:
3n3E
Here how to use this dongle emulator:
********* Capturing all dongle I/O data to a file ************************
1. install your Dongle in LPT1 (Port address must be 378h)
2. Run WKPE.EXE and "Enable Capture"
3. Run your targets ,and test all menus
Don't use any printer function, since this
version does not support them
4. If all tests are ok, return to WKPE windows and
"Disable Capture and get Data"
5. Save I/O data to file. (backup dongle data)
********* ok ,you can now remove the dongle *******************************
********* Emulating the dongle ********************************************
6. load I/O data file
7. "Enable Emulator"
8. run your target
9. "Disable Emulator"
Be careful though: here is what Slava wrote :-)
With all due respect to your site and your efforts, I must
tell you that I haven't seen this kind of crap for years.
Here are the results of my express-test of Wkpe dongle-emulator
(I tried to cover different dongles/app modes):
1. Code Soft 4.0 (Brady) Memo Hasp, 16 bit application
I whish I knew all those exotic languages, but after
following all the instructions from the Readme file, I finished
up with some weird message box, whithout beeng able to save
anything.
2. Genesys 6.1 (Eagleware) Time Hasp, 32 bit application
Page Fault as soon as I start capturing data, no matter what I do
or how many times I try.
3. Board Maker (any version) (Tsien) 16 bit, DOS application
Doesn't seem to do anything. The app simply exits with an error,
same as without the emulator running.
Best regards, Slava (20 January 1999)
Let's see what the Authors of wkpe will answer... :-)
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