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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 developed and distributed illegitimately in circumstances of copyright infringement or software piracy.

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

It certifies that the copy of the program is original.

Software is a collection of programs and data that tell a computer how to perform specific tasks.

Software often includes associated software documentation.

This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work.

Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s) is an act of removing copy protection from a software.

Copy protection can be removed by applying a specific crack.

A crack can mean any tool that enables breaking software protection, a stolen product key, or guessed password.

Cracking software generally involves circumventing licensing and usage restrictions on commercial software by illegal methods.

These methods can include modifying code directly through disassembling and bit editing, sharing stolen product keys, or developing software to generate activation keys.

Examples of cracks are: applying a patch or by creating reverse-engineered serial number generators known as keygens, thus bypassing software registration and payments or converting a trial/demo version of the software into fully-functioning software without paying for it.

Software cracking contributes to the rise of online piracy where pirated software is distributed to end-users through filesharing sites like BitTorrent, One click hosting (OCH), or via Usenet downloads, or by downloading bundles of the original software with cracks or keygens.

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.

Patches are often written to improve the functionality, usability, or performance of a program.

The majority of patches are provided by software vendors for operating system and application updates.