/* Windows XP CD Key Verification/Generator by z22 Rewritten by Endermanch */ #include "header.h" HANDLE hConsole; ul32 dwSeed; byte charset[] = "BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789"; /* * PK: VX8CG-8KC6V-PVPMD-GKPPH-GC7W8 * * The Windows XP product key is composed of 25 characters. The dashes store no information. * The product key is encoded in Base24 with an alphabet of "BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789" in order * to avoid ambiguous characters (e.g. "I" and "1", "0" and "O"). * * To convert a 25-digit key to binary data, we need to: * 1. Think of the key as of an array of bytes. Then convert the concatenated key VX8CG8KC6VPVPMDGKPPHGC7W8 * into its Base24 representation ('B' = 0, 'C' = 1, 'D' = 2, ...) -> [ 13, 15, 22, 1, 4, ... ]. * 2. Compute the decoded array in little-endiannessConvert. * 3. The decoded result is divided into sections: * - 12 bits -> OS Family * - 31 bits -> Hash * - 62 bits -> Signature * - 9 bits -> Prefix * * Product ID: AAAAA-BBB-CCCCCCC-DDEEE * * digits | length | encoding * --------+---------+--------------------------------------- * AAAAA | 17 bits | bit 0 to bit 16 of P1 * BBB | 10 bits | bit 17 to bit 26 of P1 * CCCCCCC | 28 bits | bit 27 to bit 31 of P1 (lower 5 bits) * | | bit 0 to bit 22 of P2 (upper 23 bits) * DDEEE | 17 bits | bit 23 to bit 31 of P2 (lower 9 bits) * | | bit 0 to bit 7 of P3 (upper 8 bits) * * digits | meaning * --------+------------------------------------------------- * AAAAA | apparently always 55034 (in Windows XP RC1) * BBB | most significant three digits of Raw Product Key * | (see below) * CCCCCCC | least significant six digits of Raw Product Key * | plus check digit (see below) * DD | index of the public key used to verify the * | Product Key. Example: 22 for Professional keys; 23 for VLK keys * EEE | random value (used for phone activation, different installation IDs are generated) */ /* * Decoding the Product Key results in an example byte sequence. * * 0x6F 0xFA 0x95 0x45 0xFC 0x75 0xB5 0x52 0xBB 0xEF 0xB1 0x17 0xDA 0xCD 0x00 * * Of these 15 bytes the least significant four bytes contain the Raw * Product Key in little endian byte order. The least significant bit is * removed by shifting this 32-bit value (0x4595FA6F - remember the * little endiannessConvert byte order) to the left by one bit position, resulting * in a Raw Product Key of 0x22CAFD37, or * * 583728439 * * in decimal notation. */ int main() { ul32 nAmount = 1; hConsole = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE); srand(GetTickCount64()); HINSTANCE hInstance = GetModuleHandleW(nullptr); int p = InitializeWindow(hInstance); system("cls"); cprintf("Windows XP VLK Keygen\n\n", 0x08); cprintf("Principle of Operation:\n", 0x0C); printf("We need a valid Raw Product Key to generate a Product ID in form of AAAAA-BBB-CCCCCCS-DDEEE.\n\n"); printf("AAAAA is the Windows XP Series constant - different for each version.\n"); printf("Raw Product Key directly represents the BBB-CCCCCC part of the Product ID.\n"); printf("S is a \"check bit\": it's picked so that the sum of all C digits with it added makes a number divisible by 7.\n"); printf("DD is the index of the public key used to verify the Product Key.\n"); printf("EEE is a random number used to generate a different Installation ID each time.\n\n"); printf("The Product Key itself can at most contain 114 bits of information, as per the alphabet capacity formula.\n"); printf("Based on that, we unpack the 114-bit Raw Product Key into 3 ordered segments:\n"); printf("\tData (31 bits), Hash (28 bits) and Signature (55 bits).\n\n"); printf("Microsoft uses a really elegant Elliptic Curve Algorithm to validate the product keys.\n"); printf("It is a public-key cryptographic system, thus Microsoft had to share the public key,\nand it's, in fact, stored within pidgen.dll.\n"); printf("To crack the CD-key generation algorithm we must find the corresponding private key from the public key,\nwhich was conveniently computed before us.\n"); printf("In general, there are 2 special cases for the Elliptic Curve leveraged in cryptography - F2m and Fp.\nMicrosoft used the latter.\n"); printf("\ty^2 = x^3 + ax + b %% p.\n"); printf("The task boils down to generating a valid Hash/Signature pair for the Raw Key we provided:\n"); printf("\t1. We need to generate a random 384-bit number r, and define C = R(r.x, r.y) = rG.\n"); printf("\t2. Hash = (First32Bits(SHA1(pRaw, r.x, r.y)) >> 4.\n"); printf("\t3. Signature = privateKey * Hash + (C %% Order)\n"); printf("Finally, we pack these components together, convert them to Base24 and get a valid Windows XP key.\n"); }