Posts from January 2019

• Crypto failures in the wild

  28 January 2019 | reverse engineering encryption cryptography security | Comment

  Sony PlayStation 3 ECDSA random number reuse

  The Sony PlayStation 3 (2006) uses Elliptic Curve DSA (ECDSA) to sign executable binaries.

  ECDSA takes a private key \(d_A\) and a random number \(k\) with public parameters \(G\), \(n\) and public key \(Q_A = d_A G\), and… »

• Guide: Magisk root and (Ed)Xposed using official releases on the Xiaomi Mi A2 (Android 9.0)

  24 January 2019 (updated 17 June 2019) | android superuser guide | Comment

  This is a guide on rooting the Xiaomi Mi A2 using Magisk and installing Xposed via EdXposed for Android Pie 9.0, using the official releases.

  Unlocking the bootloader

  Firstly we need to unlock the bootloader to allow us to flash new images. Go to Settings… »

• Starship (Starkid) official recording songs (direct links and timestamps)

  24 January 2019 (updated 27 January 2019) | misc music starkid | Comment

  Unlike some of their other recordings, Starkid's Starship (2011) is split into multiple parts, making finding individual songs difficult. Here are links to all of them:

  • I Wanna Be: A1P1 2:21
  • Get Back Up: A1P5 4:40
  • Life: A1P6 1:31
  • Life (Reprise): A1P6 8:31
  • Hideous Creatures:
  … »