ALPHA
Lesson:	cracking a serial number
Target:	JDTricks 2000 v1.1 <www.jdtools.de>
Aim:	Newbies
Tutor:	nAbUkO
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This document's purpose is education. I am not responsible for anything
resulting from the use of the information or from the information itself
provided in this document.
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Tool needed: SoftICE (v4.05)
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I.	Cracking serial number for JDTricks 2000 v1.1
II.	Additional info
III.	General info on cracking serial numbers
IV.	Request
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I.
At first we enter our name: 'Sexy Silke' (I hope that she won't mind ;]).
In the 'Key-Code' box we enter one number after another until the 'OK' button
gets enabled. Now we switch to SoftICE by pressing 'Ctrl-D', and type
'bpx hmemcpy'. Then we exit SoftICE by pressing 'Ctrl-D'. Back in JDTricks
we click on the 'OK' button; SoftICE immediately pops up. We press 'F5'
because both inputs must get into memory (we filled out two text boxes (one
with our name, the other with a serial number)). Then we press 'F11'.
Using 'F10' we're tracing thru till we reach 0041D44D. After typing 'd edx'
we can see the serial number suitable to our name in the data window:
'6712EA65DB7'.

II.
By trying out names that have only five or less letters we can see that there
are also 'suitable' serial numbers getting calculated but they are too short:
the 'OK' button does not get enabled. It seems that the name used for
registering must have at least six letters.

III.
The following may help you when cracking serial numbers:
In SoftICE you should always pay attention on register changes and take a look
at or into them by using the 'd xxx' command. Sometimes it is also helpful to
simply search the memory by using the 's 0 l ffffffff 'xxx'' command to look
for the name or serial number you entered.

IV.
In the end I make a request to you:
If you live in AC (it's in the westest west of germany) or if you're gonna
visit this beautiful city someday, then tell Silke Kurz that I just can't stop
loving her. She'll be always on my mind.
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cu nAbUkO