| Re: Why not open source? [message #184553 is a reply to message #184549] | 
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						Kanezor
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		| howang wrote on Tue, 03 January 2006 06:22 |  
 | Kanezor wrote on Mon, 03 October 2005 04:16 |  
  
4) Putting an encryption key in the registry decreases security, since it's wholly easier to read a registry key than to read process memory (and to know exactly what memory to read, you must read the code to find out where that encryption key is stored) 
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ok, please take a look at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Westwood\Renegade, there is a value called 'Serial' which contain your Renegade cd key in encrypted form. Steal this string and put it in your own PC's registry makes you own the key.
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Have you actually tried doing that? Because I actually know what I'm talking about when I say that doing only that will result in a different (and most likely invalid) key. 
		
		
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