[CrackZ]

toro, I was hoping people REALLY INTERESTED in this stuff would do their own research with your emulator ;-).

The bar seems to have been raised somewhat now with Hardlock, the internal algorithms are no longer a secret, so now the knowledge rests in 'how to derive the seeds from a dump' and 'how to break the Hardlock envelope' without access to the original Hardlock. I would have preferred the emulators attached to this post not to have been made quite so public but then thats just me ;P.

I personally haven't made a full enough study of the Hardlock algorithm to tell if the envelope really can be broken (I've heard rumours that it can be using the tables stored in the Hardlock envelope section).

I always believed you should give people enough information to find their own answers ;-), since Aladdin has pretty much abandoned Hardlock there probably isn't as good a reason as there was to hold on to its 'secrets'.

Anyway, my 2c and then some. I will probably write my own Hardlock envelope 'ditty' sometime.

Regards

CrackZ.