https://github.com/awuctl/licensing-stuff

Collection of tools for playing with Windows licensing stuff
https://github.com/awuctl/licensing-stuff

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Collection of tools for playing with Windows licensing stuff

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/awuctl/licensing-stuff
• Owner: awuctl
• License: lgpl-2.1
• Created: 2023-04-08T12:09:31.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-04-12T14:30:27.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-14T09:36:14.188Z (26 days ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 1.63 MB
• Stars: 55
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# "Licensing Stuff"

This is a bunch of tools I've used for some time to do morally questionable stuff to Windows Licensing. I don't really have a reason to use them anymore so I hope someone else can have some fun.

## How do I use this?

If you just want to make a product key and don't want to read too much code, go [here](docs/how-to-use.md). 

All tools support the `--help` option, you can read it for a bit of context on the parameters.

## Tools

### keycutter.py

This contains an implementation of the "`msft:rm/algorithm/pkey/2009`" product key algorithm. The tool gives you an API and a commandline tool to encode and decode product keys or find ones matching a specified template. The template function could be written to allow for an **almost** arbitrary key but I didn't have any use for it other than a few funny sets of keys so I never bothered.

A bit of info about product keys [here](docs/product-keys.md).

### pkeyconfig.py

This is a simple API for interacting with data from `pkeyconfig.xrm-ms` files. 

### keymaker.py

This is a tool using `keycutter.py` and `pkeyconfig.py` that creates a plain text or json file with every single 2009 product key for a specified `pkeyconfig.xrm-ms` file.

### skuidmap.py

This is a lookup table between SKU IDs (edition IDs) and edition names. Most of this can be extracted from `winnt.h`, but some values are gone forever and there are many holes. There are other sources for these but they require heavy machinery to dig out. I can elaborate on request.

### store.py

This is a collection of mini tools that can do fun things related to the store.

`store.py content-id   ` is used for creating a content ID for a given product. This is the UUID which you can find in some files and registry keys related to licensing. This value is calculated with a very simple "formula", which you can read in the `content_id` function.

`store.py query-content ` is for querying the store for a particular content ID. This will give you information about pretty much any Store product for which you know the content ID, although it's worth knowing that some (particularly Windows-related) content IDs are hidden there and will give you a not-found error despite actually being internally recognized. There is also an option to specify the market and query language; this can get you pricing information or whether a given product is available in another market.

`store.py query-pkeyconfig ` is the same as above but it will do it automatically for all editions found in a pkeyconfig file.