From: "pittmanr99" <pittmanr99@...>
Sep 25, 2004
I've done a little research in the patent office, and found something
interesting about the Mailstation...
The Mailstation "Desktop Email Terminal" is covered under U.S. Patent
number 6,697,942. I've read the patent, and it seems to me that the
best way to reflash the device lies in breaking the ClipMail security
key it uses to verify the messages.
Once the machine sees a valid key, it will update the flash using an
attached file. If the security key verification process could be
reverse-engineered, maybe valid keys could be generated.
The patent mentions DES, but it may be encrypted using some other
algorithm. I have no expertise in encryption/decryption, so I have no
idea of how to go about breaking it. Maybe it's worth pursuing,
though.
From: "Neil Morrison" <neilsmorr@...>
Sep 25, 2004
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is the patent. I wonder if this is relevant to the Yahoo message functions?
Neil
From: "pittmanr99" <pittmanr99@...>