How secure are Hardlocks/ Dongles really??

[TippeX]

dongles can be more secure than software solutions, but it all relies on the implimentation of the dongle, a dongle that just sends the same data on an inquiry is very easily emulated, if the software just does a simple dongle check and doesn't do anything further after the check passes (ie: one check, then continue) then that part of the code can be cracked, some dongles can be dumped/interrogated, some cant, but in essence it goes along with the concept that a hardware solution is better than a software one, which i kind of agree with. that and there are less dongle crackers around than there are software crackers etc.. all in all its a better option but fundamentally relies on the implimentation of the dongle check within the software

[G-Dorion]

Thank you very much so far,
that about the membership for Cracker groups is really interesting. I'm surely going to put that into my work.
The work is for next Monday, so plz keep posting if you know anything!
Thx
G-Dorion

[kosmiq]

Dongles can be very safe (as TippeX said). Something for you to look at would be the cracking of Cubase SX3 by H20 (derilium) and the hard work required there to crack the USB dongle.

It took them a looong time to succesfully crack it. They had to write an emulator emulating the dongle. You can take a look at some of the story in the original nfo (is avaible on various nfo posting sites).

Hardware dongles really are safe and could in a near future be almost impossible to crack/emulate at all.