Quote Originally Posted by StankBacon™ View Post
actually rec0 supposedly made a program that converts it back from the hash, but he never released it for obvious reason.
I don't believe that; I was told that your CD key hash is reversed and then MD5'd, and there's no way to figure out what the source of an MD5 hash is unless the source is known.

Quote Originally Posted by The»Lucian View Post
I knew that I meant using hash as part of its admistration. In my experience it just leads to further complications... Especially if there are keygens out there that are duplicating existing keys.
Basing admin identification on a CD key as opposed to distributing a password is by far much more secure; while any idiot can leak a remote console password, the chances of your CD key being stolen and used against you are very slim. Yes, I know there are keygenerators out there that happen to be generating existing keys, but how many people do you think are there that own a copy of Halo for the PC legitimately versus kiddies pirating it with a keygen?