Hey guys

I was wondering what everybody used to make notes on their crackit targets? Pen and paper, notepad or are there better tools out there?

Personally I use Notepad for the initial commentary but I got to thinking it would be nice to have it in multiple columns, one for the dump, two for initial comments, a third for grouping into little sub-routines (Dec ecx, jnz etc).

I guess Excel would work at a pinch - but I was wondering what the others thoughts were!

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hm i never took any notes so far.
if i need to remeber an offset i put it in notepad and close it afterwards.

Same here, i dont have any single notes about crackits, alotugh my TBS folder is about 20 MB now ....


I dont know what i should note on crakcmes ? If I use ollydbg it stores bp, comments etc itself for the next time i start that crackit and anything else is experience you gain with the time

Ray

I do take notes of everything! Specially for crackits! I use to comment the code to understand what is happening. I enjoy to write this kind of own-tutorials in order to remember what I've done in previous challenges. If another similar challenge appears I can check my old records
(Maybe that's why I take so much time to solve challenges.. ehhe )

Yes, I always use pp to take note on crackits

RE,

well Eskimo if you use Ollydbg ...and I know you do...you can comment the code right inside olly. Much better than cut & Paste Code to notepad. Just rightlclick on the comment row and write your comment next to the asm line...additionally Olly will also save the Breakpoints, and stuff itself. When u done just copy the .UDD file of the crakcme along with the crackit into some new folder...

Ray

yea but sometimes if i reopen a file in olly it tells me that there are some corrupted breakpoints in it and everything gets reset, even though i didnt change anything...

Thanks for that tip rayden! I did not know that those stuff was saved in those files.
Btw, I do comment the code inside Ollydbg. I just do a copy & paste to notepad after everything is done

Be carefull if you move the crackme with the .UDD file, because the UDD file store the absolute pathname to the crackme executable and not the relative path... so if you try to reopen it it won't show you again your comments until you stored it in the right folder (i.e. the one you previously used...).
Rayden did you have a tip for that instead of editing by hand the UDD file ?

I dont have to care about that I have seom Folder with crackmes..and the UDD Path points to the same folder ...so everything I need is in there ..no need to move anything

Ray