[?]: New version of Rockwell Activation

[peterg70]

Hey all

With Rockwell pushing the new activation wondering if anyone has done any work on it.

I have started working my way through it with some progress.
Just need to sort out some bugs and should be good to go.

Let me know.

[neuhauser]

I know that it uses the mac address of a Ethernet card or the actual manufacture serial # of the hard drive depending on the activation type.
The activation license has to be generated for the user by Rockwell ether on-line or by email after the software is installed.
The activation can be moved to another machine but again Rockwell has to generate a new license ( number of moves is limited a year) unless it is activated to a network card and the card is moved with the license.
You can buy concurrent software and activations can be issued to other machines as needed depending on the license count.

I don't know of a way to emulate the hard drive serial ( intercept it in the code maybe?).
This is reported to the os from the manufacture info on the drive and can't be changed.
You can emulate the mac in VMware or Virtual box (at least I have).
You do have the option to activate using a usb dongle but haven't seen an emulator yet.
There is speculation that the trial period info may be stored on the hard drive boot sector.

[Rock_manp]

Hello,

The hard disk serial number used by Rockwell products is the what Microsoft calls the Volume ID or Volume Serial Number. You can view the volume ID by going to a command prompt and typing DIR. It will be two lines after the command prompt. It is easily modifiable with a program called VolumeID made by Mark Russinovich.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi ... s/bb897436

The network card mac id can be simulated by installing a virtual network driver. The VirNet driver can be setup to enter any known mac ID and the rockwell activation software doesn't know it isn't a real network card but it works anyways.

http://www.ntkernel.com/w&p.php?id=32.

[neuhauser]

The vol id is used by the old evicom- evrsi activation. The new FactoryTalk activation uses the hard-coded manufacture's serial number. This serial is located in the hard drive firmware and can't be changed.

[Rock_manp]

I've been doing this awhile and I use the activation manager quite a bit. If you compare the Disk Serial number Rockwell reports to the Volume ID you will find that they are always the same. They are both Hex numbers so a=A and so on. I've used this method a lot.

Rockwell recommends using the Hard Drive number because the Ethernet cards on laptops tend to go into sleep mode when not in use. If the NIC card is not present when the activation scans for it than the software will not work. The hard drive number is always readable.



Change Serial number to something else




Restart computer and Check the Host ID's again and it is updated.

[DBN281977]

Has anyone come across the algorithm rockwell uses to generate the activations? i would be great to have the keygen they use so you could activate it the same as rockwell