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Nintendo Switch RSA-PKCS#1 Public Key Recovery

This is a short writeup of a fun (but ultimately pretty useless) attack I implemented on the Nintendo Switch a few months ago resulting in the recovery of some otherwise unobtainable RSA public keys. Since public keys aren't private keys, this is pretty useless, apart from letting us validate some signatures on PC. Even so, the attack is a pretty cool one, so I thought I'd write it up.

Every Switch gamecart has a unique certificate (called its "CERT"), storing an RSA signature followed by some kind of unknown but unique encrypted data. I was trying to reverse how these certificates work, and the obvious first step was to try to see how they were validated. However, when I tried looking through the FileSystem (FS) module, which should be responsible for validating these certificates, I found no references to the format at all. The "CERT" magic number was nowhere to be seen, and I couldn't find an RSA modulus that validated the signatures I had. This was in

@GianlucaGuarini
GianlucaGuarini / post-merge
Last active August 22, 2023 20:54 — forked from sindresorhus/post-merge
Git hook that gets triggered after any 'git pull' whenever one of the files specified has changed. Useful to update any web application dependency using bower npm or composer
#/usr/bin/env bash
# MIT © Sindre Sorhus - sindresorhus.com
# forked by Gianluca Guarini
changed_files="$(git diff-tree -r --name-only --no-commit-id ORIG_HEAD HEAD)"
check_run() {
echo "$changed_files" | grep -E --quiet "$1" && eval "$2"
}
@mtigas
mtigas / gist:952344
Last active April 3, 2024 07:57
Mini tutorial for configuring client-side SSL certificates.

Client-side SSL

For excessively paranoid client authentication.


Updated Apr 5 2019:

because this is a gist from 2011 that people stumble into and maybe you should AES instead of 3DES in the year of our lord 2019.

some other notes: