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DS Misc > Watching Pictochat with the PC

#61847 - paco1234 - Thu Nov 24, 2005 7:46 am

This is experimental, and not finished. Just an early alpha...

It will need the same wifi-card and driver used for wireless downloads to the ds. You will need 2 DS transferring data in pictochat to test, since the pc does not actively communicate, it does only sniff the packets.

NO USE to test it with only one DS !

And, the Pictures will be scrambled a little .... See the decoded.bmp file

http://www.qslnet.de/member/hb9tlk/ds.html

#61880 - Ilomoga - Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:07 pm

A 68KB big *.exe file named ds.exe in a zip arcive named ds.zip without anything else.

Sorry, but I can't trust something like that ...
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#61883 - juhees - Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:22 pm

Ilomoga wrote:
A 68KB big *.exe file named ds.exe in a zip arcive named ds.zip without anything else.

Sorry, but I can't trust something like that ...


Same here, but if you run FreeBSD or don't mind a bit of porting, you can give pictosniff
http://freshmeat.net/projects/pictosniff/
a try. It's on Freshmeat and GPL. I haven't tried it, but I think, you can trust that (and/or read the source).

Juhees

#61884 - Ilomoga - Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:27 pm

I don't have FreeBSD but Linux, but maybe it works too.
But doesn't matter, it's not really something I need but it would be nice to try :D
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#61896 - paco1234 - Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:52 pm

Quote:

Same here, but if you run FreeBSD or don't mind a bit of porting, you can give pictosniff
http://freshmeat.net/projects/pictosniff/
a try. It's on Freshmeat and GPL. I haven't tried it, but I think, you can trust that (and/or read the source).


Intresting ! I did not know this already exists.
Could someone get the source and post it as .zip?

I will upload My source here:
http://www.qslnet.de/member/hb9tlk/ds.html
Will need a lot of work to be "usable" !

#61903 - Mr Snowflake - Thu Nov 24, 2005 7:51 pm

Well, I'm trying, but I cant receive any messages.. I have 2 ds's, but the computer doesn't get anything, I guess.
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#61905 - paco1234 - Thu Nov 24, 2005 8:06 pm

its not ez...

you have to be on channel 1, room A. (both ds !)
The RT2560 Driver by Tim Schuerewegen must be installed.

as soon as "raw data found" shows up,
see the decoded.bmp file. (double click it)

New hack does "auto-open" the picture,
and doesent break when some packets are repeated or missing.

Large pictures get cut. Bug is known.


Last edited by paco1234 on Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:41 am; edited 1 time in total

#61907 - Mr Snowflake - Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:02 pm

Hehe, I got the problem. I'm using a pccard in a laptop (obviously), but when I put the thing in standby or sleep the driver doesn't reset when the computer come to live again, it is working now.
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#61912 - paco1234 - Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:52 am

Quote:
it is working now.


Great!

Now, i need some help to actively participate
in the chat .....

MKDS code 051599-526880

#61931 - Mr Snowflake - Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:59 pm

I'll uploqd the logs later today.
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#61948 - MaHe - Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:02 pm

This Pictochat sniffer works :)
Nice, but unuseful though (no offence, I know it's experimental ;) )

#61950 - CoolkcaH - Fri Nov 25, 2005 7:17 pm

It may be useful if you add a OCR program and use pictochat to control the pc or resend the messages to IM programs...but without being able to send messages from the pc to pictochat it doesn't seem useful at all.

Good to sniff other people's conversations =P


(Waits for Pictochat server by sgstair.......)

#61953 - paco1234 - Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:00 pm

Quote:
Waits for Pictochat server by sgstair.......


Yep, this would be intresting, especially if he releases the sources.
A sniffer is much simpler to build than than a "server".

But, when sgstair manages the tcp-ip on the DS, and maybe releases a lib for the DS, we will see the instant message clients running on the DS with no need of a PC to translate. This will be a lot better than pictochat.

#61979 - lambi1982 - Sat Nov 26, 2005 4:15 am

works very well, a start to what will soon be great
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#61988 - gladius - Sat Nov 26, 2005 7:20 am

Hm... Some of that source looks somewhat familiar :).

#61997 - paco1234 - Sat Nov 26, 2005 9:30 am

hehe...

i have seen this email somewhere before ..
good job!

A little text on the data organization of the pictochat
images would be great...

#62002 - MaHe - Sat Nov 26, 2005 10:05 am

Paco, can you write an "echo" application for a start? I mean that it'd send the encrypted packets back, but under some other name... Possible?

#62083 - paco1234 - Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:48 am

NO..

maybe in some months.

#64040 - TheKilled. - Sun Dec 18, 2005 9:13 pm

I worked a little in the wmb for Linux and it seems that the begining of the Pictochat connection is the same as a wifi download (Auth then Assoc ...).

Do you know were i can find a connection capture beetween 2 DS for a pictochat ???

It would be great if we could make a pictochat server =)

EDIT : OKi i modified my sender application for pictochat and the connection procedure works well !
Now i have to send specific datas to the DS for it to know my name, etc ... but i don't have any pictochatting capture ...
The keep alive procedure seems to be already working and of course it's logic (Beaconing)
So i'm in need of pictochat connection capture files !!!

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP =) !