was wondering if anyone could point me to into any resources on how to crack software(vsts) i know it isnt a walk in the park but i have the time to learn and would be willing to share the fruits of my labors

 

https://tuts4you.com/download.php?list.17

 

thank you very much bro appreciate that

 

thank you bro would there be follow ups for the newbie version or should this cover all the basics

 

thanks alot bro really appreciate that

 

hey man i tried runing the files and it said my evaluation period is out of date any idea how to fix this

 

Some friendly advice:-

Seriously... the first rule about software development (and this includes reversing) is it's about problem solving.
If you can't develop the skills to solve your own problems, you will never code anything worth a damn.

 

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this is why they teach such difficult math in university, yeah in the end it doesn't really pertain to actual coding, but it teaches you how to THINK and SOLVE complex problems, it's all about seeing if you can problem solve. And I agree with dkny, because you better like problem solving.

 

Not always an easy game! On MAC, Windows, Linux or what?
Some PC cracking here @
http://www.youtube.com/user/fjlj/videos
As far as i know there's not much around for Audio Plug-Ins...
...the few ones that do it don't share their knowledge with others
and almost never make tutorials, that's a pity somehow.

 

http://www.woodmann.com/crackz/

Lot of resources and walkthroughs. It's really old, but quite beginner friendly.

Before you start that though, you want to have good knowledge of debuggers, disassemblers, hex editors, assembly language, and programming. There are many resources out there on the web/in books to teach you these basics. For software, I can recommend IDA Pro (paid) or x64_dbg (open source). From there, it really comes down to experimenting, trial and error, and as someone said here, finding the best ways to solve problems.

For the record, I am no reverse engineering expert. I have only dabbled in it.

 

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the last topic like this ended with Ilok beeing cracked...
Lets see were this goes.......

I also want to suggest to keep it on the legal side, too keep it nice and clean. (so-far we are doing fine!)

assembly language actually is really though to understand, for me at least it seems out of reach...

 

Hardly the same - that guy was already an experienced reverser, and came looking for new challenges.

It's not like he walked up and said "I've heard about this iLok thing and think I can break it. Can somebody explain to me how these computer things work, never used one..."

 

Best hacker / crackers are the ones who grew with the change in operating systems, starting from win 3.1 and up theres so much to learn if your a noob Good Luck

 

I cant even decompile a vst.DLL, seems like these are created in a different manner.
When you use a ID program (Peid) it always comes up unknown PE or type.

Ive tried Olly, Ida Pro, Visual C to try decompiling. Kook is right, there's not much info. I haven't found any on non netframe dll's

To be clear I have no idea what I'm doing except going down a path of curiosity and trying to figure out the first problem lol
BTW There's tons of tutorials on exe's, just not dlls.

 

I believe that Audio Plug-In cracking is a bit more complicated.
Strangely no one has developed yet an universal tool that can be used for those needs!
Basically a host-like program that is able to *intercept* actions & data flow would help a lot.

 

I am sure R2R has such a tool. They spoke of an R2R framework in one of their keygen's about section. Not certain what that implies, but I find it hard to believe that after so many releases they still start from scratch every time.

 

I don't think so. R2R is always using the same scheme = patch + keygen.

 

Yes, what I meant is they may have developed software to "automate" some of the menial and repetitive tasks of plugin reversing, which is what I thought you were talking about. So when I saw "R2R framework" in the about section of a keygen (fabfilter I think), I figured it was either some framework for their keygens/installers, or custom-built software for reversing audio plugins. It would make sense for them to create something like that. I don't really know though.

 

Thanks for the link. Hopefully I can learn something new.