I haven't been a member here long, but I have respect for this site. However, I have had very little luck posting anything without being flamed 5 minutes after my post. It inspired me to start flaming back and then there was a huge mess, and I got a bad name from the start.

I am a student seeking to increase my knowledge in the computer field of study. I know that this site has an extensive amount of brilliant minds and I respect them for many reasons. However, there are too many people, it would appear, who have nothing better to do with there time than to find some clever way to flame someone.

I just want some help, and I have recieved help on this site before. I hope that someone takes what I am saying seriously, because I would love to participate more in this forum. School takes up alot of my time and I have little time to learn things on the side. I would just like to be able to ask a question and not get flamed every time.

Can someone maybe consider answering my question? I am fully aware that I could potentially be some little drug addicted script kiddie who needs another serial for my $100,000 dollar collection of programs. Or I could be a person who is truly interested in learning for the purpose of education and understanding. I may not even write one single line of code, I just want to know if XOR is more common that Modulus type algorithms.

I do not need any help performing illegal activities. I need advice on what type of algorithm is used to generate a common 24 byte product key. I want to know what type of information to seek from "google", and I don't need a long explanation.


Thanks again,
Nate