read starcraft cdkey?

[aton]

hi!

does anyone know in what file/registry key the cdkey is saved and how to read it?

[brew]

hi aton!
the cdkey isn't stored in the registry, but instead in an encrypted file in stardat.mpq.

[Barabajagal]

The CDKey is encrypted into various files in the Font folder of StarDat.mpq. I haven't bothered to find out much more than that.

[brew]

Do I hear an echo, or is that me? =/

[aton]

couldnt i use a starcraft function? starcraft needs to read the cdkey before loggin into bnet, right?

[brew]

On initalization of the SNP, the cdkey is read then decrypted, and passed to the battle.snp startup function in a struct as the first parameter. If you want to retrieve the CDKey, this is pretty straightfoward. Writing the cdkey however.. not so much.