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My board at work!

Apologies for the bad quality.  I really was installing DD-WRT whilst recording, for the first time!  I tried to tidy it up but it’s still fairly rough!

1. Go the the DD-WRT website.
2. Go to Router Database.
3. Search for your Router (or one you might want to buy), in my case the Linksys WRT54GL from NewEgg (note:  NOT a sponsored link and other shops are available).
4. Read this stuff: http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=51486
5. Notes:  Initial flashing ‘Mini Generic’ via web interface.   Give it at least 2 mins after reboot!
6. Installation guide: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Installation
7. Lifehacker article: http://lifehacker.com/178132/hack-attack-turn-your-60-router-into-a-600-router
8. Short version:
   1. Plug in the router
   2. Install the mini-generic DD-WRT firmware
   3. Reboot the router if it doesn’t restart itself
   4. Install the full DD-WRT firmware.  It should restart
   5. Enjoy the shininess of the new firmware!
   6. Reset the password and username!

Thoughts.

Just a little slideshow for the screenshots…

Also I just listened to my episode again and realise I kept calling it VMWare.  I was running Virtual Box.  Apologies for the confusion.

Python will be the language I do my HPR on.  Well I say 'do' because I just recorded it (although still have to edit it).  I am thinking I will create a new section for programming here, with the scripts I started with (I do ad-lib a fraction mind) and the code examples and similar.  I will also of course have show notes on the HPR site, but think putting a list here will be helpful.

So I have closed the poll.  Thank you everyone who voted / commented / spoke to me about it in IRC.

My next HPR ep is due on the 28th I believe, so look for it then!

I talk about Encryption, various ways and some examples.  Hopefully it's not completely confusing!  Link is in the podcast section.

The notes seemed to have gone from the HPR website so they are below:

Three Prime Numbers: 2, 3 and 5.
I will call them A, B and C so A=2, B=3 and C=5
Working through x as the current position, and i being the unencrypted password and j being the encrypted as an array, so i[x] is the 'current' position we get:

j[x] = ((j[x-1] + i[x] + A) * B ) MOD C

The password example I give is:

Encrypting 123

1 (unencrypted password) + 2 (Prime A) = 3
3 * 3 (Prime B) = 9
9 MOD 5 (Prime C) = 4

4 (previous encrypted) + 2 (current unencrypted) + 2 (Prime A) = 8
8 * 3 (Prime B) = 24
24 MOD 5 (Prime C) = 4

4 (previous encrypted) + 3 (current unencrypted) + 2 (Prime A) = 9
9 * 3 (Prime C) = 27
27 MOD 5 (Prime C) = 2

So the encrypted password is 442
 

It can be found here and in it I install Windows in my Virtual Box.  It was definitely interesting!