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Construction of keygenerators ( a step by step tutorial )
For beginners

AUTHOR: Quantico
EDITOR : Wordpad (just to be different for a change, I like using colours too :) (increase the margins to full screen)
AUDIENCE : Beginner
TARGETS : 1) HTMASC 2.2 ( http://www.bitenbyte.com ) ( file is ~ 500kb )
2) J-Write 2.3 ( http://www.demon.co.uk/mwa-soft/ ) ( file is ~ 460kb )
3) Crypto 3.1 ( http://www.execpc.com/~sbd/ ) ( file is ~ 120kb )

SOLUTIONS : Keygenerators ofcuz :)

TOOLS : 1) Our beloved softice to see the code 'real time' ( any version, I use 3.2 )
2) Wdasm for looking at large code snippets ( I suppose any version would do )
3) Regedit & notepad ( to unregister the programs :)
4) Turbo pascal, tasm and tlink, and a knowledge of a 'little' programming in pascal and asm.
5) Patience
6) A 2 litre bottle of Pepsi. Drink as required. :)

INTRODUCTION

Even though there are many tutorials on writing keygens out there nowadays, I still feel there is a need to teach the very beginners how to do them, else how can we learn and become more advanced ? Many of the keygen tutorials are aimed at the intermediate or advanced crackers in which the protection scheme in the chosen program is well beyond the capabilities of most newbies. There have been some good tutorials however, for the newbies, written by guys like CoRN2, pain and Vizion. Since I have only recently begun to make keygens myself, the information contained in this tutorial won't be too advanced.
Anyway, if you have any queries about the programs' protections, my bad coding or anything else, feel free to ask me or any other op about it on IRC in #cracking4newbies, I think most of them will help.....that's what we're there for.

NOTES

Programs' protections get *slightly* more complex...