(ollydbg will be used in examples)įirst, run the program that you are attempting to reverse engineer and try to activate it with a random key to verify that you need a valid software key to proceed.
A debugger installed: IDA, ollydbg, etc.
Windows (for examples only, debuggers exist across platforms).At that point, it's a test of your morals if you want to use your knowledge for good or bad. I will not be walking you through how to actually crack a legitimate program, because I can't just crack a program for demonstration, but the techniques applied to my examples should give you the foundation needed to create your own. In this Null Byte, let's go over how cracking could work in practice by looking at an example program (a program that serves no purpose other than for me to hack).
