hey guys, i'm a bit of a lurker on the forums and site, mostly reading in my spare time on a project i'm starting.

I'm working on VB3 application with HASP3 protection. I do not have the dongle anymore. My problem is, the software company isn't offering dongle replacements - only $6k upgrade packages to their current software (this new stuff is HASP5 protected). While it would be nice to have the latest and greatest - it wouldn't honestly benefit to the tune of $6k.

So here I am with questions that were not directly answered in CrackZ's page.

- any pointers on double checking the HASP protection version?
- without the dongle, am I out of luck removing the HASP protection?

I generally assumed its protected with v3 due to the age of the application itself and noting files like hasp.386, haspmsw3.dll, etc. If this isn't correct I would gladly love to learn how to identify the correct version.

I did open the application binary in my fav hex editor and noticed the typed control names, font names, strings within the app, etc were not encrypted.

anyhow, i'm wondering if there might be someone who can shine a bit of light on this.

Hiya,

Most of the HASP VB protected programs of that era I ever encountered all called in via the dll (usually 16-bit for VB3 and 32-bit for VB4 (haspmsw3 & haspvb32 ring a bell in my memory)) as well as some more obscure interfaces for other languages like FoxPro etc.

As for the interface its almost certainly HASP 3, services and code structure described in zafer's first HASP paper (although that was more of a cut n paste from the HASP API manual of that time).

If you need any assistance further let me know, it ought not be very hard to break this one.

Regards,

CrackZ.

...still reading and testing a few things but nothing is clear to me at this point. still pushing forward.

i would like to post my findings when i completely understand them and what not.

CrackZ, I'm dead in the water on this. I've been staring at this for a while and I haven't made any legit progress.

any advice?