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Public/Private encryption is not a new thing, did you know you can use my favorite swiss army knife to send secret messages to your friends…. Scratch that, I don’t have any friends… Perl Makes this easy with a little module calls Crypt::RSA, yes RSA is under fire for security blah blah, I don’t care, it’s still secure, because Mr. S’s (yes it’s a dudes name) I can’t pronounce nor spell, I know it will be fairly decent, I am almost about sure Mr. S should be Dr. S, but that just sounds evil, so without further ado, public/private key encryption with perl.

Two people in this Article Tony and John, John wants all correspondence encrypted Tony Encrypts.

I am on my new Mac now, so your mileage may very….

sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Crypt::RSA

it asks you about a ton of dependencies, don’t do what your high school guidance counselor told you and just say yes.

Create something to make the keys

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Crypt::RSA;
$rsa = new Crypt::RSA;
if ($ARGV[0] eq "--makekeys") {
	($public, $private) = $rsa->keygen( 
				Size => 2048,
				Filename => "keylock",
				);
	exit;
}

The start of out program generate our rsa key, keylock.private (and keep this private, no touchy no sendy) and keylock.private, send this to everyone

ok send the public key to tony, so he can send us a message…. Tony should create the message now

if ($ARGV[0] eq "--createmessage") {
	$key = $ARGV[1];
	$message = $ARGV[2];
 
	#open the key
	$akey = new Crypt::RSA::Key::Public (	Filename => "$key");
	my $output = $rsa->encrypt(Message => $message,Key=> $akey)|| die $rsa->errstr();
	open ENC, ">message" or die $!;
	binmode ENC;
	print ENC $output;
	exit;
}

One thing that was a gotcha for me was writing the file, I forgot to tell perl to write it binary, since the encryption is all binary, we must write it so. We now have a file called “message” if you try to edit the file, it’s all gobble gook. Tony can now send you this message, and only you can read it, but how?

if ($ARGV[0] eq "--readmessage") {
	$key = $ARGV[1];
	$message = $ARGV[2];
 
	open FILE, "$message" or die $!; 
	binmode FILE;
	my ($buf, $data, $n);
	while (($n = read FILE, $data, 4) != 0) {
		$buf .= $data;
	} 
	close(FILE); 
	$akey = new Crypt::RSA::Key::Private->read(Filename => "$key");
	my $output = $rsa->decrypt(Cyphertext => "$buf",Key => $akey)|| die $rsa->errstr();
	print $output ."\n";
 
	exit;
}

So now we read the file “message” in using our private key, since Tony encrypted the message with our public key, we can now read it with the private key…. So how does this work?

John-Hasss-Mac-Pro:~ john$ ./keylock.pl --makekeys
John-Hasss-Mac-Pro:~ john$ ./keylock.pl --createmessage keylock.public "007 would be so jealous"
John-Hasss-Mac-Pro:~ john$ cat message 
?????u?????מ?n???-@?l?Q??)??~}3?"h2??=,??3??݁/m?s?[?M)?F?}?|ߩJ????k;?7??i???D?\w;?U??ʬ??y7dz??&?]pXv?-???E@"X?E?HH0?(S?"?`?,?R??7???ϳ
  ??Ցh???촇??K??Rs??uxs;??r^΀?G?????5??W??Y???4Y??_~?(YͷӍr\űeĥr??John-Hasss-Mac-Pro:~ john$ 
John-Hasss-Mac-Pro:~ john$ 
John-Hasss-Mac-Pro:~ john$ ./keylock.pl --readmessage keylock.private message
007 would be so jealous
John-Hasss-Mac-Pro:~ john$

Welcome to the magic of public private key encryption!

Have fun!

Here is a quick step-by-step guide to doing that. However, keep in mind that sound quality is a thing of opinion and results may very!

1. Click the phone icon
2. Dial ##7764726
3. Click the Green Phone Icon or Call Button
4. You will then be asked for a SPC password
5. Enter 000000  (That is 6 Zeros)
6. Then click the Verify button
7. You will then see the programming Menu
8. Select option 04 or whatever option is titled “Vocode”
9. By default the option “EVRC” should be selected
10. To “improve” call quality select “EVRC-B” and click Apply
11. Then click the back button on the phone
12. Your phone will then reboot
13. When it comes back up you are done!

So now you can be the judge as to whether or not your call quality is better.

Be advised that this will cause your battery to drain faster… yes, even faster than it already does!

Yesterday I was searching around the web and found this video on fbgstudios.com. It is a tutorial on how to add a custom boot screen to your Motorola Droid. It does require you to root your Droid, but hey, if you are ballsy enough to change your boot screen I bet you already have your Droid rooted!

Here is the video tutorial:

Here is the text tutorial:

1. Make sure that your phone is rooted, if it is not watch this video tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QVm4SxH8Pw

2. Download an animation and make sure that it is named bootanimation.zip.

Here are some you can download (but there are plenty more online so you can google them):

• Nexus One
• 3d Android
• R2-D2 (MAKE SURE TO RENAME IT TO “BootAnimation”)

3 OPTIONAL

* a) To customize the animation just add the text or image you want. Remember that each picture is a frame and that each frame moves very quickly so if you want solid text make sure to put it on for more than 15 frames. Also keep in mind that there are two animations (part0 and part1) and part is the one that repeats.
* b) Now highlight folders part0 and part1 as well as desc.txt file.
* c) Using WinRAR right click and select “Add to archive…”. IMPORTANT: Make sure that the file is named “bootanimation” and the file format is .zip!

4. Connect your USB on your Droid and make sure it is mounted!

5. Go to your SD card of your phone and drag the bootanimation.zip into the root folder.

6. Eject your phone

7. Download Terminal Emulator for you phone then open it up

8. Type in the following (EXACTLY THE WAY YOU SEE IT; press enter after each line):

su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
dd if=/sdcard/bootanimation.zip of=/system/media/bootanimation.zip
Reboot

9. Your phone will be rebooted and now you can enjoy your new custom bootscreen!

Again I want to give credit to FBG Studios.com, so make sure and visit their site.

Here is a direct link to the tutorial: http://fbgstudios.com/how-to-get-a-custom-boot-screen-on-droid/2009/12/

<?php
function shortenURL($url) {
$login = "yourlogin";
$apikey = "your api key";
 
$newurl = file_get_contents("http://api.bit.ly/shorten?version=2.0.1&longUrl=".$url."&login=".$login."&apiKey=".$apikey);
$content = json_decode($newurl,true);
$error = $content["errorCode"];
if ($error == 0){
$newurl = $content["results"][$url]["shortUrl"];
}else {
$newurl = 0;
}
 
return $newurl;
}
?>

Just include this file in any script and call

and boom it’s shortened.

Merry Christmas you filthy animal.

I was working on some PHP code yesterday. However, every time I would load any page that contained PHP code Dreamweaver CS3 (Dreamweaver 9) would crash.

Note: The issue also occurred when trying to load PHP & ASP code.

After some research on the internet I found this link:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb402776

To solved the problem it is as easy as deleting your Dreamweaver cache file.

That file is located in:

Windows Vista -

C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration

Windows XP -

C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration

Just close Dreamweaver delete the file named WinFileCache-AD76BB20.dat, then start Dreamweaver again.

Simple as that. For more detailed instructions see the link above.