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How to "UNDONGLE" the hell out of it
Updated January 1999
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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 :-) |
16 May 1997 | PHASE 1 by Xoanon | Cubase -Dongle protection cracking | (the main tricks) - (xoacuba1.htm: FVP03F01) |
3 Sep 1997 (Part C: 19 Oct 1997) |
PHASE 2 by Zafer | Dongle reverse engineering | (Hasp dongles) - (zaferdon.htm: FVP03F02) |
2 Nov 1997 | PHASE 3 by +DataPimp | (A Very Easy Dongle Protection) - (datapi1.htm: FVP03F03) | |
6 Nov 1997 | PHASE 4 by Dr. Fuhrball |
Simple unix busting | (the microphar dongle galore) - (fuhrba.htm: FVP03F04) |
29 Nov 1997 | PHASE 5 by The+Chineese |
Dongle protection reversing (HASP) - Pinit dongle testing | (Encyclopaedia Universalis: the French reference) - (chineee1.htm: FVP03F05) |
24 Dec 1997 | PHASE 6 by zeezee |
Zen and the Art of Dongle Cracking |
(A somehow 'general' essay about dongles) - (zee__4.htm: FVP03F06) |
11 Jan 1998 | PHASE 7 by +Aitor |
Reverse Engineering MATLAB 5 - Part I: Dongle Protection | (Simple dongle reversing: the 'alien dll date' trick) - (aitor1.htm: FVP03F07) |
20 Jan 1998 | PHASE 8 by Quine | Pushing the Envelope with HASP | (De-Hasping, zip cracking and other marvels) - (quine_h1.htm: FVP03F08) |
22 Jan 1998 | PHASE 9 by Spyder |
SSI Win32 Dongle Protection | (Initial workaround for difficult Win32 targets) - (spyder_4.htm: FVP03F09) |
29 Jan 1998 | PHASE A by Frog's Print | Dongle Bashing ~ End of the dongle old aera | (How a single +HCU Fravia can easily blow a whole commercial sector out of history) - (fp_dong1.htm: FVP03F0A) |
21 February 1998 | Connected to the previous essay, same phase: Dongles are NOT dead! (programmers: use them!) __NEW__ | ||
03 Feb 1998 | PHASE B by Dr Fuhrball: | Marx Crypto Box, the most Secure device ever made | ("Protection Plus Professional") - (fuhrba_3.htm: FVP03F0B) |
drfuh5.htm | Connected to the previous essay, same phase: |
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13 Feb 1998 | PHASE C by MaD: | Unplugging a dongle protection | (unplugging technical library from Micro house) - (dong_mad.htm: FVP03F0C) |
16 Feb 1998 | PHASE D by MaD | Bashing LPT-Parasites | (DONGLES: The weak brothership between hard- and software) - (maddon_1.htm: FVP03F0D) |
26 Feb 1998 | PHASE E by bayunni: | Undocumented HASP - Part I, | (what d'you think of all the hype about HASP?) - (bayu_2.htm: FVP03F0E) Advanced |
04 Mar 1998 | PHASE F by MaD: | Dongle DEJAVU | (Revealing sentinel Pro main code) - (madlas1.htm: FVP03F0E) |
12 Mar 1998 | PHASE 10 by bayunni: | Undocumented HASP - Part II | "xDEAD:xBEEF: extending HASP manufacturer's services" - (bayunn2.htm: FVP03F10) Advanced |
04 May 1998 | PHASE 11 by Shaman: |
How to crack an hardcore dongle-protected program | Cracking 'Security Lock Number' ('SLN') - (casmw652.htm: FVP03F11) Advanced |
27 May 98 | Bajunny | bayu3.htm | Undocumented HASP 3 (no more security through obscurity) |
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" Fravias will always remain (quite) ahead in this lind of games...
********* 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"
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)
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