[HN Gopher] Neo-Desktop/WindowsXPKg: Keygen for Windows XP
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       Neo-Desktop/WindowsXPKg: Keygen for Windows XP
        
       Author : prvt
       Score  : 51 points
       Date   : 2023-05-28 13:27 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | irusensei wrote:
       | Does it comes with a catchy tracker soundtrack?
        
       | RobotToaster wrote:
       | Wasn't the XP source code leaked some time ago?
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       | Couldn't someone just modify it to remove the key check?
        
         | junon wrote:
         | This implies you can build it. I've not seen the leak but I
         | doubt it's complete enough to perform a full, working build.
        
       | jeroenhd wrote:
       | This can't possibly work, there's not a single line of code in
       | there that plays those sweet mod tunes that every good keygen
       | plays when you start it.
       | 
       | All kidding aside, this looks like a fork or reimplementation for
       | the tool that got popular recently, based on a blog post from a
       | few years back.
        
         | IntelMiner wrote:
         | I've been setting up a WinXP PC for old games (Command &
         | Conquers, etc) and re-discovered the "Fighting 4 FUN" multi-
         | keygens (hundreds of EA games in a single 100KB-ish keygen)
         | 
         | The music is delightful
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE2uyF4PzNI
        
       | cat_plus_plus wrote:
       | POSReady 2009 is lighter, has more updates and is volume
       | activated, so a cleaner option all around.
        
       | esalman wrote:
       | I reinstalled XP so many times back in the day that I still have
       | an installation key memorized.
        
         | baobrien wrote:
         | FJG2V-CDW3P-K7BKD-89FCT-GM6MY
        
           | doix wrote:
           | DQTHH-4PG4W-TMYYF-W77VV-PR8HD
        
         | 2Gkashmiri wrote:
         | H7c97-c67jb-g6rqr-p6hwy-tmq6w
        
           | esalman wrote:
           | cgj2m-cftxy-w4rbj-bwtgb-vh2cb
        
           | AmVess wrote:
           | LOL, that's the one.
        
           | Dwedit wrote:
           | FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8
        
             | 2Gkashmiri wrote:
             | Nice
        
       | gnabgib wrote:
       | Seems to be a fork of the original
       | https://github.com/TheMCHK/WindowsXPKg
        
         | miles wrote:
         | Even that is apparently not the original; see Endermanch's
         | _Actual creator of XP Keygen / Future of XP Key Generation_
         | https://github.com/TheMCHK/WindowsXPKg/issues/5 .
        
       | userbinator wrote:
       | The private key was small but I suppose it was considered
       | adequate at the time of release; it was cracked a long time ago
       | (late 2009 was when I first learned of it) and an earlier keygen
       | exists. Stuff like this tends to remain private/hard-to-discover,
       | but I'm not surprised to see it publicised now.
       | 
       | Here's some more details:
       | 
       | https://sabah.forumotion.com/t333-all-you-need-to-know-about...
       | 
       | The key phrase is at the end: "Therefore, the complexity of
       | computing the private key k is O(2^31)"
        
         | miles wrote:
         | That forum post is an uncredited reprint of the years-earlier
         | _MSKey Readme_ [1], a brief history of which I've outlined in
         | the first footnote on this blog post[2].
         | 
         | [1] https://bbs.kanxue.com/thread-10032.htm
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         | [2] https://tinyapps.org/blog/202304230700_xp_wpa.html
        
           | technion wrote:
           | It's so odd to me that people are trying to RE an executable
           | here. Like if I cracked a crypto system just for community
           | credit I'd rather blog the algorithm than release a closed
           | source executable. Seems to happen a lot in these cracking
           | communities though.
        
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