Express VPN V3.09 Keygen

The other major attack vector is known as a software "keygen", which is much more ominous. Asits name may imply, a keygen is a form of software, often a separate program or webpage, thatgenerates valid license keys, i.e. a key-generator, or "keygen."

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Most software vendors have some type of license keygen, which they keep secret. For example, aftera user submits a successful purchase order, part of the order process calls a key generator, whichgenerates a valid, legitimate license key for the new customer.

Depending on your key generation algorithm, a keygen like this may only be able to generate validkey for a single version of an application. But in the worst case, a bad actor can create a keygenthat generates valid license keys that work across all versions of an application, requiringa complete upheaval of the product's licensing system.

It's also worth mentioning that keygens are much more valuable to bad actors than cracks, becausea keygen can be used on the real application, vs the bad actor having to distribute a modified,cracked version of the application.

With that said, let's assume the role of a business that is about to release a new application.We're going to write a keygen that we, the business, can use to generate legitimate keys forour end-users after they purchase our product.

Our PKV keygen should be a tightly kept trade secret, because with it comes the power to craftlicense keys at-will. But we'll soon realize, much to our demise, keeping a PKV keygen secretis actually not possible.

Now, a keygen for production-use may have more subkeys, or the subkeys may be arrangedor intermingled differently, but the algorithm is still going to be more or less thesame. As will the algorithm's vulnerabilities.

Well, that's doubly not good, for them. And as Murphy's Law would predict, this keygen hasjust been submitted to a popular online message board that the business has no control over.The keygen grows in popularity, sales dip, stakeholders are unhappy.

Let's reclaim our role as bad actor. Users of our keygen are claiming that it no longerworks, which is weird because it was most definitely working before. They're paying usin cryptocurrency, and even though we're a bad guy, we like to keep our customers happy.

It's simple: once we start verifying the 2nd subkey, which the bad actor will once againwrite a keygen for, and then the 3rd subkey, we'll eventually run out of subkeys.Even if we use 100 subkeys, running out is inevitable.

It means that after we've rotated through verifying each of our subkeys, in our clever attemptat combatting the keygens, we'll soon have no more recourse. Sure, we can start blacklisting seedvalues directly in our application code, but that's a fool's errand when there's somethingworse than running out of subkeys.

Well, at the end of this scenario, once all subkey parameters have been leaked, the bad actorcan fully replicate our secret keygen! (After all, we've literally given them the keys to ourcastle. It was a slow trickle, but they were patient.)

With that in mind, there's no benefit to using PKV, a licensing scheme that will eventuallyleak its secrets to any bad actor that is looking, vs. modern cryptography. It's not more secure,it's not easier to distribute, and it doesn't protect you from keygens. PKV is, by design,security through obscurity. And it should no longer be used.

After generating our keypair, we're going to want to keep those encoded keys in a safeplace. We'll use the private signing key for our keygen, and we'll use the publicverify key to verify authenticity of license keys within our application.

We've learned how legacy licensing systems, such as Partial Key Verification, canbe compromised by a bad actor, and how PKV is insecure by-design. We even wrote aPKV keygen ourselves. We then wrote a couple secure licensing systems using moderncryptography, implementing Ed25519 and RSA-2048 signature verification.

The good news is that unless a bad actor can break Ed25519 or RSA-2048, writinga keygen is effectively impossible. Besides, if a bad actor can break Ed25519 orRSA-2048 in 2021, we'll have much bigger things to worry about, anyways.

But remember, a crack != a keygen, so your application's licensing always runsthe risk of being circumvented via code modification. But license keys cannotbe forged when you utilize a licensing system built on modern cryptography.

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When the remote server wants to connect to the private repo, it would authenticate via ssh. Create the private-public key pair with ssh-keygen or if you already have the public-private key. copy&paste the public key in the Settings of the private repo.

In my case the old host was in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts. When I removed it as root with sudo ssh-keygen -f /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts -R THE_HOST it changed permissions on that file to 0600, so SSHing to THE_HOST as root worked, but for any other user it failed with "Host key verification failed". The fix was: 2ff7e9595c