So I was trying to research what goes into generating a GIT commit hash and I thought I would try to personalize the cryptographic hash output a little bit. My computer isn’t that powerful but it may be possible to generate more zeros!

import time, hashlib, subprocess

head = subprocess.check_output("git cat-file commit HEAD | sed -e 's/> .*$/> %d %s/'", shell=True)
secs = int(time.time())
rnds = (secs - 99999999)
offs = "-0500"
begs = ("0" * 6)
ghsh = ""

while (not ghsh.startswith(begs)):
    rnds = (rnds + 1)
    comm = (head % (secs, offs, rnds, offs))
    data = ("commit %d\0%s" % (len(comm), comm))
    ghsh = hashlib.sha1(data).hexdigest()

chk = raw_input("Commit hash [%s]?: " % (ghsh)).strip()
if (chk.lower().startswith("y")):
    comd = ("GIT_COMMITTER_DATE='%d %s' git commit -a --amend --no-edit --date='%d %s'" % (rnds, offs, secs, offs))
    subprocess.call(comd, shell=True)

Happy New Year! – 2022 – From DynaDock

I created a macOS app called DynaDock which can dynamically flip through a set of low-information-icons while being active in your dock. It only has to two screens so far (month+day and wind-direction) but more could be added in the future.

Source Code: github.com/stoops/DynaDock

Well, 2021 has been another crazy year – almost like 2020, with lots of ups and downs. I tried post as much content as I could but it’s been tough of course with everything going on in life. I was also bored and trying to make a Music app icon but I didn’t like how it turned out so I’ll post it here to save it for the future. Hopefully the next year coming up will turn out better – happy holidays, stay safe out there!

Extra Icons: fossjon/2020/11/28/custom-squircle-icons

Just wanted to keep a list of manual configuration items for each macOS app, in case anyone also finds them useful as well.

Brave (FF UI is freezing when waking from sleep)

• redirector-extension
  • glob -> http*://www.reddit.com/* -> https://old.reddit.com/$2
  • regex -> ://[^/]*(facebook|fbcdn|fbsbx|fbstatic)[^/]*/ -> http://127.0.0.1

Firefox

• about:config
  • gfx.webrender.all = true
  • gfx.direct2d.disabled = true
  • layers.acceleration.disabled = true

TextMate

• command_line
  • defaults write com.macromates.TextMate disableTypingPairs -bool YES

–

macOS

• Beware of the Monterey bugs
  • ! memory leaks !
  • macrumors.com/2021/11/01/macos-monterey-memory-leak-user-reports/
  • bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1735345

Music

• Restore Library
  • Hold “Option” during launch & select “Choose Library” to load a saved music library file

There’s something about the ARC4 algorithm that still fascinates me to this day… it’s just fun to play with!

function rc4md(m) {
    var r = [], s = [], i = 0, j = 0, k = 0, x, y, z;
    for (z = 0; z < 256; z++) {
        s[z] = z; r[z] = z;
        k = (((k + 1) * z) % 256);
    }
    var c, l = m.length, n = (l + (256 * 16));
    for (z = 0; z < n; z++) {
        if ((l > 0) && (z < l)) { c = m.charCodeAt(z); }
        else { c = s[k]; }
        i = ((i + 1) % 256);
        j = (((j << 1) ^ (s[i] + c)) % 256);
        x = s[i]; s[i] = s[j]; s[j] = x;
        k = (((k << 1) ^ (j + s[c])) % 256);
    }
    for (y = 0; y < 32; ++y) {
        r[y] = (r[y] ^ s[k]);
        k = ((k + r[y]) % 256);
    }
    var o = "", h = "0123456789abcdef";
    for (y = 0; y < 32; y++) {
        o += (h.charAt(r[y]>>4) + h.charAt(r[y]&0xf));
    }
    return o;
}

var z = "", m = ["", "0", "a", "abc", "acb", "abcd", "abce", "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"];
for (var k in m) {
    z += (rc4md(m[k]) + " " + m[k] + "\n");
}
console.log(z);

=
4edc57104c34679320117fbd98403deb8457a59a1c9b7e91884a4f05c917a7cc 
b9b53c6e32f5eeedbfdf0ce22a8e359212bf36f8a6d66c2d645250f3aa682ed6 0
d9188e109e58b64bc48ba481d18920c01ddbb7ea4120b74e7236d95622b82d19 a
55dec6a3e8793925cf9612b3fcd311593bb18210787b0d7b229d6eff8f703dfe abc
b60a8ba9fe569a3d59b70ee9921976039a753aaba0c9209c8b0aa1ded0119043 acb
5774da821f04b8a6b104a08c0b77e6630cbd327348e37f24c8cde41fd84aa013 abcd
13488161d5ef426de0c60162ae167de3a23645ff51b3859e2abfcd7b5ad56b2a abce
1f4461806b98d43b10086e1ebf4aa75e192968587ddaa97e2868c2e09067801d the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
=

The beginning of the ARM laptop journey!

Well it finally came through! The size and thinness make it very portable at 14-inches, although it does feel a bit heavier in weight, similar to how my old Powerbook G4 felt. The liquid retina display is smoother, crisper, taller, and more vibrant at a 16:10 aspect ratio, in addition to the extra menubar space and smaller bezels. The keyboard key travel feels solid, firm, springy, and has a satisfyingly-mechanical “clickity-clackity” type of sound to it. Speakers are full and warm. Touchpad is responsive and accurate. The old-school ports are back including MagSafe, HDMI, and SD-Card, in addition to the amazing convenience of TouchID. This machine feels like the modern-retro car equivalent of a laptop computer, the way a proper computer should be, for pros!

Cons: One thing missing is the 802.11ac-3×3 radios (it only has a two-by-two)

— Intel-free since pre-2023 ! 🙂

So I’ve placed an order for my first ARM laptop to finally replace my five year old 2017 Macbook Air (the last Intel processor) — (I’m going all-in on ARM) !

Machine Specs:

• Macbook Pro: 14-inch Liquid Retina XDR Display
• Apple M1 Max: 10-core CPU & 16-core Neural Engine
• Systems on a Chip: 32-GB Unified RAM & 32-core Integrated GPU
• IO: Three Thunderbolt 4 ports, SDXC card slot, HDMI, Full-Fn-Backlit Keyboard
• 1TB SSD Storage
• Touch ID & MagSafe!
• The end of the x86 era!!

This is what happens! 😂 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So I was experimenting and if you can get signed certs from let’s-encrypt and dns records from cloud-flare, then you could store your public signed certificate as a set of split txt entries which anyone could verify with a set of trusted root certificates. You can then use the private key to sign an encryption key (stored as another txt record) along with the encrypted message (also another txt record).

This would allow you to sign, store, and send short messages (in a single direction) with confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity all through a plain text protocol (as long as the root certs exist)!

Verification Chain:

• The message data is hashed into -> The encryption key
• The encryption key is signed with -> The private key
• The private signature is decrypted with -> The public key
• The public key is embedded into -> The signed certificate
• The signed certificate is verified with -> The root certificates
• The end verify -> The root certificates + The domain name + The expiry time

# ./dns_fun.sh fossjon.com d

Certificate:
    Data:
        Version: 3 (0x2)
        Serial Number:
            04:b3:64:ec:80:70:47:42:2a:8a:ef:b4:11:60:03:9d:23:78
    Signature Algorithm: sha256WithRSAEncryption
        Issuer: C=US, O=Let's Encrypt, CN=R3
        Validity
            Not Before: Oct  9 18:35:11 2021 GMT
            Not After : Jan  7 18:35:10 2022 GMT
        Subject: CN=*.fossjon.com
        Subject Public Key Info:
            Public Key Algorithm: rsaEncryption
                Public-Key: (2048 bit)
                Modulus:
                    00:c8:1c:f6:86:b7:b5:45:63:68:7b:e4:34:10:6e:
                    0c:51:da:73:5b:65:d4:f7:fd:c8:c7:2e:d8:8b:01:
                    2d:c5:67:a4:0e:7a:b6:57:bf:fe:2a:c9:52:4d:38:
                    51:56:a6:08:bb:5a:8f:85:32:88:c0:3c:9b:3e:ad:
                    f9:1a:aa:21:fb:b6:2f:d1:7c:bc:c1:6e:ae:d8:b4:
                    c9:87:a5:69:a4:c5:f9:1d:3a:1f:49:68:94:75:b9:
                    ab:f6:12:9f:56:4c:7f:26:f1:6e:85:9e:1e:66:be:
                    74:e0:01:91:6d:59:cb:0d:34:01:10:5c:b9:43:44:
                    52:07:6a:ca:3f:83:1e:41:6c:51:5a:a6:fa:20:8f:
                    33:40:76:90:ab:4d:04:6f:33:70:f0:09:c7:38:25:
                    26:15:70:d6:f9:f4:e6:b6:71:11:e0:7a:c6:04:86:
                    30:c9:56:f0:14:6e:9e:66:60:b3:7d:2b:42:a4:b9:
                    fb:6d:73:4f:26:2e:17:aa:a8:64:72:e2:f5:a8:b1:
                    17:8d:f4:db:a8:10:fc:70:ff:1b:cc:78:6f:04:84:
                    e0:fc:1d:15:72:de:41:bd:14:c5:26:72:3e:56:2a:
                    aa:1d:9f:1a:3c:17:40:91:21:7e:2a:b4:8a:c2:ab:
                    79:0f:dd:21:13:a1:2e:da:6a:a3:92:49:e7:f1:58:
                    36:bf
                Exponent: 65537 (0x10001)

Secret_key_123-77cf362ab2442e3fa3062d06adb571f0ea92647f0ba137300a272767d6ea0834

this is just a test of the emergency broadcast system, this is not the real thing!

#!/bin/bash

d="$1" ; z="$2" ; m="$3" ; k="$4"
echo

if [ "$z" == "e" ] ; then
  h=$(echo "$m" | openssl dgst -sha256 -r | awk '{ print $1 }' | tr -d '\t\r\n')
  t="${k}-${h}"

  e=$(echo "$m" | openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -e -k "$t" -S 00 | base64 -b 255)
  echo "$e" ; echo

  s=$(echo -n "$t" | openssl rsautl -sign -inkey privkey.pem | base64 -b 255)
  echo "$s" ; echo

  p=$(cat crt.pem | grep -iv '^---' | base64 -d | base64 -b 255)
  echo "$p" ; echo
fi

if [ "$z" == "d" ] ; then
  c=$(dig "z.pubcrt.$d" txt +short | tr -d ' "\n' | base64 -d | base64 -b 64)
  ( echo '-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----' ; echo "$c" ; echo '-----END CERTIFICATE-----' ) > /tmp/crt.pem

  t=$(openssl x509 -text -noout -in /tmp/crt.pem | grep -i 'exponent' -B 64)
  echo "$t" ; echo

  v=$(dig "z.pubkey.$d" txt +short | tr -d ' "\n' | base64 -d | openssl rsautl -verify -certin -inkey /tmp/crt.pem)
  echo "$v" ; echo

  o=$(dig "z.pubmsg.$d" txt +short | tr -d ' "\n' | base64 -d | openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -d -k "$v")
  echo "$o" ; echo
fi

So I decided to switch the nameserver records on my fossjon.com domain over to Cloudflare’s service for two different reasons. One is that they offer more advanced https reverse proxying tech along with a better dns management interface as well! I still have the domain registered with Google Domains as they also offer pretty good mx record email forwarding via gmail.

Cloudflare won’t let you directly rewrite the HTTP HOST header field anymore, however, they will let you setup a more advanced HTTP JavaScript worker process. This process can handle the incoming web proxy requests along with the outgoing responses and perform some modifications on them. This is an extremely powerful framework and it behaves more like a proper reverse proxy server would!

I created a GitHub repo to track the worker javascripts: github.com/stoops/cfworkers

Note: It seems like CF offers a better DNS API service, however, I couldn’t yet find a DNS backup button to help save all my records locally (hacky webarchive file but at least it’s sorted nicely).

javascript:(function(){
var t = document.getElementsByTagName("table")[0];
var s = t.getElementsByTagName("tr");
var m = {}, l = [], z = 1;
for (var i=0; i<s.length; ++i) {
  var d = s[i].getElementsByTagName("td");
  if (d.length > 4) {
    var k = d[2].innerText.trim();
    if (k.endsWith(".com")) { k = "@"; }
    if (!(k in m)) { m[k] = {"r":[]}; l.push(k); }
    var r = d[1].innerText.trim();
    if (!(r in m[k])) { m[k][r] = []; m[k]["r"].push(r); }
    m[k][r].push([d[3].innerText.trim(), d[4].innerText.trim()]);
  }
}
var b = "style='border: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;white-space: nowrap;'";
var o = "<table style='padding: 8px;'><tr><th "+b+">No.</th><th "+b+">Time</th><th "+b+">Record</th><th "+b+">Type</th><th "+b+">Value</th></tr>";
l.sort();
for (var i in l) {
  var k = l[i];
  m[k]["r"].sort();
  for (var j in m[k]["r"]) {
    var r = m[k]["r"][j];
    m[k][r].sort();
    for (var d in m[k][r]) {
      o += ("<tr><td "+b+">"+z+"</td><td "+b+">"+m[k][r][d][1]+"</td><td "+b+">"+k+"</td><td "+b+">"+r+"</td><td "+b+">"+m[k][r][d][0]+"</td></tr>"); ++z;
    }
  }
}
o += "</table>";
document.head.innerHTML = document.head.innerHTML.replace(/script/ig, "xscript");
document.body.innerHTML = o;
})();

Source Code: https://github.com/stoops/dockerssl

If you want to get a wild-card certificate with let’s-encrypt then you’ll have to use the DNS verification method. I made an example Docker file and script that can quickly and easily spin up a Debian container to install and run the certbot application. You can then connect to the container via a local URL (http://127.0.0.1:8080/) and interact with the process to setup the TXT record and then verify the DNS entry and then download the signed cert chain + key pem files!

Note: I do wish Google had API access to their Domains service which would allow for automated TXT records!

$ c=fullchain.pem ; k=privkey.pem ; openssl x509 -noout -modulus -in $c | md5 ; openssl rsa -noout -modulus -in $k | md5

ca7e9eba4cde42a000038aa7dae8680b
ca7e9eba4cde42a000038aa7dae8680b

$ openssl x509 -text -noout -in fullchain.pem

Certificate:
    Data:
        Version: 3 (0x2)
        Serial Number:
            04:b3:64:ec:80:70:47:42:2a:8a:ef:b4:11:60:03:9d:23:78
    Signature Algorithm: sha256WithRSAEncryption
        Issuer: C=US, O=Let's Encrypt, CN=R3
        Validity
            Not Before: Oct  9 18:35:11 2021 GMT
            Not After : Jan  7 18:35:10 2022 GMT
        Subject: CN=*.fossjon.com
        Subject Public Key Info:
            Public Key Algorithm: rsaEncryption
                Public-Key: (2048 bit)
                Modulus:
                    00:c8:1c:f6:86:b7:b5:45:63:68:7b:e4:34:10:6e:
                    .....
                    79:0f:dd:21:13:a1:2e:da:6a:a3:92:49:e7:f1:58:
                    36:bf
                Exponent: 65537 (0x10001)
        X509v3 extensions:
            X509v3 Key Usage: critical
                Digital Signature, Key Encipherment
            X509v3 Extended Key Usage:
                TLS Web Server Authentication, TLS Web Client Authentication
            X509v3 Basic Constraints: critical
                CA:FALSE
            X509v3 Subject Key Identifier:
                34:94:9E:5B:B9:3C:11:0C:F3:33:3E:A1:C4:41:DA:61:64:ED:1D:97
            X509v3 Authority Key Identifier:
                keyid:14:2E:B3:17:B7:58:56:CB:AE:50:09:40:E6:1F:AF:9D:8B:14:C2:C6
            Authority Information Access:
                OCSP - URI:http://r3.o.lencr.org
                CA Issuers - URI:http://r3.i.lencr.org/
            X509v3 Subject Alternative Name:
                DNS:*.fossjon.com
            X509v3 Certificate Policies:
                Policy: 2.23.140.1.2.1
                Policy: 1.3.6.1.4.1.44947.1.1.1
                  CPS: http://cps.letsencrypt.org
    Signature Algorithm: sha256WithRSAEncryption
         48:aa:26:6c:2e:fe:ed:a8:14:3e:80:12:c3:0b:c5:f5:95:5c:
         .....
         f2:0f:4c:9d:4e:d5:df:18:4a:cd:b3:a2:be:3e:57:2f:fc:d0:
         8e:c2:03:3e

$ openssl s_client -connect lo.fossjon.com:8443

CONNECTED(00000003)
---
Certificate chain
 0 s:/CN=*.fossjon.com
   i:/C=US/O=Let's Encrypt/CN=R3
 1 s:/C=US/O=Let's Encrypt/CN=R3
   i:/C=US/O=Internet Security Research Group/CN=ISRG Root X1
 2 s:/C=US/O=Internet Security Research Group/CN=ISRG Root X1
   i:/O=Digital Signature Trust Co./CN=DST Root CA X3
---
Server certificate
subject=/CN=*.fossjon.com
issuer=/C=US/O=Let's Encrypt/CN=R3
---
No client certificate CA names sent
Server Temp Key: ECDH, X25519, 253 bits
---
SSL handshake has read 4628 bytes and written 289 bytes
---
New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
Server public key is 2048 bit
Secure Renegotiation IS supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
No ALPN negotiated
SSL-Session:
    Protocol  : TLSv1.2
    Cipher    : ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
    Session-ID: 5A9CA7F699D780CFD9FAFBC197FDBA14FC4307F225CE6C90E55CE0658E3055F8
    Session-ID-ctx:
    Master-Key: C84D32162158587663310FB67F482AE63CA9F964158B74C1E40806D8915E1B25AFB3DC2F22E15D58450F7CFCA0FAA8B4
    TLS session ticket lifetime hint: 7200 (seconds)
    TLS session ticket:
    0000 - 48 82 2b be 43 84 b1 13-11 7a e5 bf 39 97 89 55   H.+.C....z..9..U
    0010 - 43 41 ce 61 42 f8 16 e7-89 28 67 af 8d 73 6d 5c   CA.aB....(g..sm\
    0020 - 60 c0 13 20 cc e9 77 0d-5a 34 73 50 85 23 57 b0   `.. ..w.Z4sP.#W.
    0030 - 10 fd 8e c7 6b d4 37 8b-59 4e f4 30 b3 46 b4 d7   ....k.7.YN.0.F..
    0040 - aa c6 79 ff c0 f9 50 c2-54 f0 8e ca 64 3e 49 15   ..y...P.T...d>I.
    0050 - f5 42 fa 29 12 73 a6 f2-92 b0 a8 e0 9f 13 fa 89   .B.).s..........
    0060 - d1 8c c0 93 19 bf ea 81-32 0c 86 e7 37 42 f8 20   ........2...7B.
    0070 - f6 9d 94 d3 38 d8 c9 38-07 9f b6 99 79 b5 43 6a   ....8..8....y.Cj
    0080 - c5 11 fd a1 30 3a d6 e0-74 d3 ba b6 6f 35 47 f4   ....0:..t...o5G.
    0090 - eb c9 af c3 0f 69 95 9f-d1 4c f2 21 80 cc b5 db   .....i...L.!....
    Start Time: 1633812734
    Timeout   : 7200 (sec)
    Verify return code: 0 (ok)
---
^C

DNS Server: fossjon.wp.com/2021/03/24/…dns-server-blocker-forwarder/

Edit: This would be a good time to plug another amazing blog site written by Cory Doctorow (a member of the EFF) called Pluralistic!

Note: This is only compatible with the good old.reddit.com website!

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