Re:Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
by jasomill on Monday February 02, 2026 @09:31PM
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This was true for the 10-digit CD keys Microsoft used for many products in the 90s: the first three digits could be almost anything, and the last seven digits had to sum to a multiple of 7, so, e.g., 111-1111111 was a valid product key (for any product that used the scheme).
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