Here we are: Year 2000. CORE (Challenge of Reverse Engineering) has become the most successful and legendary international Cracking group ever. Since the start of CORE in June 1997 we produced within 3 years over 6000 high quality cracks for computer software based on the Microsoft (TM) DOS/Windows Operating System. Our crackers are famous all over the world and showed thousands of commercial programmers the weak points in software-protections.

While our members search always for the ultimate cracking challenge the end-users of software love CORE for sharing its quality cracks since years with everyone for free. On the other hand it's understandable that commercial software authors don't like us very much, since we provide their potential customers registrations for free that they want to sell. However our idea is that everyone should be able to use a program if he needs to use it. A lot of our crack-users can't afford expensive registrations since they live in countries where a registration fee is a complete monthly income or they're pupils/students. We don't want to make the world better. We don't think that all software should be free. We know that we may hurt some shareware authors. We're not little kids that don't know what they do.

Our members seek for knowledge and challenge and on this way we provide people the results of our work for free. We do not sell our cracks nor do we crack for money (believe me - we got a lot of offers from well known software companies). We're aware of large "Core Crack" Compilations in east-block states that can be bought on the black market. This abuse of our work doesn't get supported by CORE in any way. CORE is a total non-profit organisation. Please do not buy such CD's. If you need a Crack please use one of the large free collections of our Cracks on the internet (e.g. Hambo's Keygen Studio; all "commercial stuff" you will see there are banners that keep the site alive because it causes a huge load of bandwith).

If you have the money to afford a legal registration of your favorite program
-please- think about it before you use one of our cracks. If you like a program and you can afford the registration fee then support the author by buying a legal registration. Authors can only continue on coding future versions of their program when it's a commercial success. So wait a moment and think about it, before you get your free registration from a CORE Keymaker. Keep good software alive. Thank you.

signed,
The Leader of CORE