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"Time matters"
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Well, we had so many essays on the "timelock dll" (now "vbox") protection schemes, that I had to systematize them. Hope somebody will help me sending a more complete 'synthese' tutorial ("how to handle our timelocks targets") that will cover, encompassing the essays you will find here, these very typical and quite frequent commercial protection dll-based schemes
As you will be able to read on my How to protect better pages, commercial protections are, usually, doomed by the intrinsic programming incapacity ('programming moroninness' :-) of all those that work for money instead than for pleasure (as anyone that has reversed a Micro$oft application will immediately testify).
This project, started long ago, has been 'taxonomized' on 12 December 1997
Last Update: May 1999
TimeLOCK_DLL reverse engineering (TL32V20.DLL)(A cracking approach to a "model" protection scheme) by +Xoanon - 07 May 1997
TimeLock32 v2.0 reverse engineering(Advanced reverse engineering: Universal keygenerator) - by Riz la+ - 07 July 1997
(Complete version with C++ source code!)
Caligari Pioneer Pro v1.1(Timelock32.dll version 1.0 Key generator) - by +daQ, 26 July 1997
CENTURY LAN ANALYZER VER 1.22b [WIN95 VERSION]
(Another TLOCK32.DLL fiasco) - by The Undertaker - 22 August 1997
A crippled tl32v20.dll protection scheme: diskeeper
(Cracking efficiently) - by as65pp - 12 October 1997
IDA-Cracking: QuickView Plus 4.5 for Win95
('grayed' menu options - nag - timelock)
by Snatch - 5 November 1997
Object Oriented Protecting: the case of the tl32v20.dll
(Timelock vagaries inside DisKeeper Trial 3.0 for NT Workstation)
by BlueMan - 12 December 1997
DoNotWasteTime_MrCracker@@YGHPBDPBEIPAEPAI@Z and
PleaseTraceIntoMe_MrCracker@@YGKKKPAEPAXKK@Z
(Timelock vagaries inside Ulead Gif Animator 2.0 - tl303inj.dll)
"A discussion, not an essay" by Marigold - 16 January 1998
Ulead GifAnimator 2.0 Trial: Virginity restored
TimeLock 3.03 Cracking by Marigold - 20 January 1998
| 20 Jan 98 | Marigold | ~ | marigo_2.htm | Ulead GifAnimator 2.0 Trial: Virginity restored | timelock. | ~ | fra_00D9 |
| 23 Apr 98 | JaZZ | ~ | netscan3.htm | Netscantools3.1 trial (What's new with timelock?) | timelock | ~ | fra_0102 |
| 04 May 98 | Marigold | ~ | marigbox.htm | Opening a Vbox full of worms: PreviewParadise lost |
advanced timelock |
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| 15 June 98 | +Xoanon | ~ | xoa_126.htm | PreviewParadise R.I.P. (vboxed programs... bye bye!) | timelock | ~ | fra_012B |
| 25 July 98 | Miguel Neto | ~ | neto_01.htm | How to crack another commercial "ready made" protection | timelock | ~ | fra_0142 |
| 12 Nov 98 | Marigold | ~ | marigo_4.htm | VBox The Hellraiser or the "paper tiger" by PreviewSystems | advanced timelock |
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| 26 May 99 | PLUMe | ~ | vboxbuil.htm | VBox Builder 4.2, a TRW session | timelock | ~ | fra_xxxx |
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