Beginners Quick & Dirty Dongle Patching

The normal tools were used, IDA, Softice or Olly, a hex editor and also a PE-file editor to patch the .exe file. It was also helpful, but not required, to download the haspman.zip from the manufacturers website just to get an idea of the different calls to the dongle and the expected returns.

It was simple to find the calls to the hasp by searching for the cmp bh, 32 in IDA and then looking close by, just like the tutorials say. The dongle can be called at two places within the program.