Cracking Codelock in 3 hours From Start to Finish
If you’ve come here from the search engines looking for step by step instructions on how to crack codelock then you may as well hit your back button right now. I’m not gonna go that far.
If, however, you’re interested in a small tale, stick around…
I recently purchased a large content generation system. I won’t go into the details of this system yet because I’m still evaluating it. At some point in the near future I may disclose exactly what it is and how I’m using it.
To use this particular content generation software, you have to hit a url on your own server. Since I paid $1500 for a full installation of this software, I expected that I would not be dependent on any third party servers.
Well, I came across a small bug tonite that revealed there was a third party server that was being accessed.
Needless to say, I was unhappy with this prospect and I wanted to find out more details on the scripts. Unfortunately, for me, they were encrypted with some software called CodeLock.
In most cases, simply encrypting a file is enough for me to avoid messing with it. In this case, however, I wanted to know exactly what URLs were being accessed on my server to make sure everything was on the ‘up and up’.
So with an editor, a little bit of time and some php expertise, I was able to crack CodeLock in about 3 hours from start to finish.
So far the code looks fine although I do want to tweak a few things on my end.
The moral of the story is if you’re using some type of program to encrypt your software, keep in mind that you’re never 100% protected. Anything can be cracked given enough time and/or ingenuity!
G-Man
So being the intrepid adventurer that I am, I started sniffing around these scripts and it turns out that they were encoded with CodeLock
13 Responses
Nice… Trying to crack something can be quite fun, at least I tend to get totally dragged into it sometimes…
December 18th, 2006 |
Check this out - http://www.chosenbytes.com/challenge.php
December 21st, 2006 |
I saw that while I was searching for info on codelock. It seems the codelock I cracked is only for php and the company appears to have gone out of business (it was the one in new zealand).
Because they're not around anymore, I may (after the new year) add in a form for decoding codelock scripts.
G-Man
December 22nd, 2006 |
I am waitng for the decoding form
December 31st, 2006 |
I'm trying to figure out a way to do it with a form which would be easy…
The problem is that you could easily rape my server if I did that because it would involve doing an eval on php code
I think, as an alternative, I'll just create a video showing how to do it.
Once you know how to do it, it's really easy to replicate.
Also, since it seems the company went out of business, it's something people might need - especially if they lost their original source!
G-Man
December 31st, 2006 |
I have been trying to crack CodeLock for a script that I want to make some minor changes to for my own use. Got so far, but now I am stuck.Some pointers would be great.
April 24th, 2007 |
Hello G-manany news regarding video Best regards
June 28th, 2007 |
Hope you can release the video , i need to recover an original files
October 10th, 2007 |
I can't get the video donee right now because I'm in the hospital but if you'll e-mail me the file(s) I can decode them for you. I have WIFI access but no way to record audio on my laptop
Send it to GMan67 pduck.com (don't forget the @)
G-Man
October 10th, 2007 |
Hello any news with video?, We want to learn.
Best regards
December 30th, 2007 |
All I need is a script to decode and I can do a video on it.
G-Man
December 30th, 2007 |
Thanks G-man , here the script http://rapidshare.com/files/91.....t.zip.html , hope you can do the video. Best regards.
February 12th, 2008 |
I have one file encrypted with codelock. Can you decode this for me? Free or how much?Thanks!
March 12th, 2008 |