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Today’s XRY 10.2.1 release brings remarkable extraction and decoding capabilities to more mobile devices, with the total number of supported devices exceeding 42,250, including over 4,200 app versions. Plus, improved Warrant Return support fo… Continue reading XRY 10.2.1 Released Today
When Elliot and I record the raw audio for the weekly podcast, it’s not unusual for us to spend the better part of two hours meandering from topic to topic. …read more Continue reading Unraveling the Hackaday Podcast Hidden Message
Want to display a PNG file on a display attached to an Arduino or other microcontroller board? You’ll want to look at [Larry Bank]’s PNGdec, the Arduino-friendly PNG decoder library …read more Continue reading PNG Image Decoding Library Does it With Minimal RAM
Look, I’ve been there too. First the project just prints debug information for a human in nice descriptive strings that are easy to understand. Then some tool needs to log a sensor value so the simple debug messages gain structure. Now your debug messages {{look like : this}}. This is …read more
Encoded strings are widely used by malware, and it’s essential to be able to decode them. Read our practical guide on base64 encoding & decoding techniques.
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There’s something thrilling about decoding an unknown communications protocol. You start with a few clues, poke at the problem with some simple tools, and eventually work your way up to that first breakthrough that lets you crack the code. It can be frustrating, but when you eventually win, it can be very rewarding.
It seems that [Jason] learned this while decoding the wireless conversation between his mass-market quad and its controller. The quad in question, a Yuneec Q500, is one of those mid-range, ready-to-fly drones that’s targeted at those looking to get in the air easily and take some cool …read more
Continue reading Drone Gives Up Its Wireless Secrets To Zigbee Sniffer
Infrared remote controls are simple and ubiquitous. Emulating them with the aid of a microcontroller is a common project that hackers use to control equipment as diverse as televisions, cable boxes, and home stereos. Some air conditioners can be a little more complicated, however, but [Ken]’s here to help.
The root of the problem is that the air conditioner remote was using a non-obvious checksum to verify if commands received were valid. To determine the function generating the checksum, [Ken] decided to bust out the tools of differential cryptanalysis. This involves carefully varying the input to a cryptographic function and …read more
I have a confession to make. I enjoy the challenge of squeezing software into a tiny space or trying to cut a few more cycles out of a loop. It is like an intricate puzzle. Today, of course, there isn’t nearly as much call for that as there used to be. Today even a “small” microcontroller has a ton of memory and resources.
Even so, there’s still a few cases where you need to squeeze those last few bytes out of memory. Maybe you are trying to maximize memory available for some purpose. Maybe you are anticipating mass production and …read more
[Bisqwit] has feelings about games that use exclamation points in his idiosyncratic walkthrough of all the nuances of the passwords in the famous Punch Out Bang Bang.
As he states in his deeply weird (though in no way wrong) channel intro, when he’s not driving a bus or teaching Israeli dance, he works hard to understand the things around him. Naturally, a mysterious phone number shaped set of digits in a favorite game was a secret worth extracting.
The digits can represent every possible state in the game. It uses a pretty simple decoding and encoding scheme, which he walks …read more
Continue reading Crack Mike Tyson’s Punch Out Bang Bang Passwords
Monkey was having such a great time, no one had the heart to tell him he had the wrong type of base …A recent blog post by Heather Mahalik (@HeatherMahalik) mentioned that a multiple Base64 decoding tool would be useful for mobile application analysi… Continue reading How u like Base(64)?
