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Re:Why 111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key by userbinator on Sunday February 26, 2023 @07:09PM (#34951250)
At the very least, no tools were ever made widely available, and don't seem to be even to this day.

That's because discussions around them have been heavily censored by Big Tech in general; but that algorithm has been cracked, purely out of curiosity, in the late 2010s.

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Re:Why 111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key by l33t233372 on Sunday February 26, 2023 @08:22PM (#34951839)
Where?
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Re:Why 111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key by userbinator on Sunday February 26, 2023 @09:20PM (#34952183)
There's some discussions about it on a site which goes by the acronym MDL.
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Re:Why 111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key by p1peridine on Sunday February 26, 2023 @09:49PM (#34952367)
https://forums.mydigitallife.net/
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