Whois & Analysis for crackcool.com

A key generator (key-gen) is a computer program that generates a product licensing key, such as a serial number, necessary to activate for use of a software application.

Keygens may be legitimately distributed by software manufacturers for licensing software in commercial environments where software has been licensed in bulk for an entire site or enterprise, or they may be distributed illegitimately in circumstances of copyright infringement or software piracy.

Illegitimate key generators are typically distributed by software crackers in the warez scene and demoscene.

These keygens often play "Keygen music", which may include the genres dubstep or chiptunes in the background and have artistic user interfaces.

A product key, also known as a software key, is a specific software-based key for a computer program.

It certifies that the copy of the program is original.

Activation is sometimes done offline by entering the key, or with software like Windows 8.1, online activation is required to prevent multiple people using the same key.

Not all software has a product key, as some publishers may choose to use a different method to protect their copyright, or in some cases, such as free or open source software, copyright protection is not used.

Software cracking (known as "breaking" in the 1980s) is the modification of software to remove or disable features which are considered undesirable by the person cracking the software, especially copy protection features (including protection against the manipulation of software, serial number, hardware key, date checks and disc check) or software annoyances like nag screens and adware.

A patch is a set of changes to a computer program or its supporting data designed to update, fix, or improve it.

This includes fixing security vulnerabilities and other bugs, with such patches usually being called bugfixes or bug fixes, and improving the usability or performance.

Although meant to fix problems, poorly designed patches can sometimes introduce new problems (see software regressions).

In some special cases updates may knowingly break the functionality or disable a device, for instance, by removing components for which the update provider is no longer licensed.

In cryptography, a key is a piece of information (a parameter) that determines the functional output of a cryptographic algorithm.

For encryption algorithms, a key specifies the transformation of plaintext into ciphertext, and vice versa for decryption algorithms.

Keys also specify transformations in other cryptographic algorithms, such as digital signature schemes and message authentication codes.