ICELicense - no idea where to start

Dear *RemedY*,
I also got stuck with this protection.
I don't have any clue how to defeat it and it also terminates DeDE.
Please share what you have found about it .
Also if there is any tutorial I would appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards,
Android.

[*RemedY*]

Hi Android,

unfortunally I must tell you, that I was not able to go any further as I was at the time of my first post about this issue .
Some people I know (and I think they are a bit more experienced than me) tried to defeat ICELicense - and they failed also. Up to now I found no tutorial whatsoever on this topic. Its really sad, because I am of the opinion that more and more apps coded in Delphi are protected with stuff from ionworx. It seems to be as strong as ionworx claimed it to be.
Sorry that I cant help you more than this.

Best regards
*RemedY*

[peleon]

Hi!

I had a look at IceLicense long time ago and I can say that it's a weak protection. For example, the trial can be reseted just removing a registry key (easy detectable with regmon).

It might look hard to crack because it behaves like a ZIP password protected application. So, if you dont know the key, you dont know which code will be decrypted, but as soon as you have a valid key you can easily dump the decrypted blocks and easily reconstruct the original program.

I dont think that this kind of "ZIP-password protectors" are much useful, becuase they only suit when you release your program with disabled functions (that will be decrypted with valid license)...when you want to release a full demo of your program, that kind of protection is useless.

I dont know 100% latest version of IceLicense...so, If I'm wrong in anything I said, tell me please

Regards.

[redbull]

I uploaded a full version with source code to the ftp server

"/pub/ICE.License.v2.08/ICE License 208 Full SRC.zip" (5,900 KB)

Hello every body,
Thanks for your help.
What I have found is just a Signature file for IDA supporting IceLcense.
To be honest,I don't know how to use this signature file properly.
I need help in this case to be able to use IDA and this signature together for cracking.

In fact,I want to crack a software which is protected by IceLicense .
My problem is that when I unpack the program all the menus and buttons will be disabled.
It checks 2 things to fo do.
1-CRC32
2-MD5
As you know Icelicense uses 2 kinds of cryptos for integrity check of the original file.(CRC32 and MD5)

As for CRC3 protection I have found a jump here

006EA9A7

But as for MD5 I couldn't find anything useful.

I want to know if you can help me and teach me how to use the signature to defeat the last protection of disabling.

There is another protection which terminates softwares like DeDE and SoftIce.
I also want to defeat it.



The program I'm talking about is here.

h**p://www.pishgamsoft.com/Products-CoLock-En.htm

Thanks in advance.
Best Regards,
Android.

[peleon]

redbull, thanks for the file.

Attached you have the trial crack for that version.

Regards.

I wrote a tutorial about Icelicense (the protected program was Winlive Pro 4.5).
Unfortunately, I think it is a quite old version, in fact the application was released in 2003..