Comments on: Dude, Where Are My Keys? http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/03/dude-where-are-my-keys/ The Super User Community Blog Mon, 05 Dec 2016 07:34:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.6 By: Ayame http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/03/dude-where-are-my-keys/#comment-122 Sun, 29 May 2011 18:44:50 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=1919#comment-122 No problem 🙂

]]> By: Sathya http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/03/dude-where-are-my-keys/#comment-121 Fri, 27 May 2011 10:03:58 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=1919#comment-121 Thanks for clearing that up @Ayame 🙂

]]> By: Ayame http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/03/dude-where-are-my-keys/#comment-120 Thu, 26 May 2011 05:07:47 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=1919#comment-120 Just a little FYI:

Microsoft products DO NOT store their keys in base24 encoding (in fact, an encoding scheme named ‘base24’ doesn’t even really exist. It’s just a name people analyzing the inner workings of Microsoft products gave it since it’s strongly resembling the principle behind the standardized base32, base64 etc. encodings), they store them in raw binary format. The ‘base24’ encoded (read: human-readable) key is the one you’re presented with on your DVD case or by the numerous key finders out there :p

Yes, the base24 encoding is actually there to make the binary product key human-readable.

This misconception is all over the internet though, so no need to feel bad about it 🙂

]]> By: Sathya http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/03/dude-where-are-my-keys/#comment-119 Wed, 04 May 2011 07:50:17 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=1919#comment-119 @Hello I feel your pain, I cringed to use the jpeg screenshots but those were the ones in the answer (and from the websites) – I’ve used pngs in the screenshots of software Kype & Me ran.

]]> By: Hello71 http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/03/dude-where-are-my-keys/#comment-118 Tue, 03 May 2011 20:22:35 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=1919#comment-118 JPEG screenshots… >:|

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