[maemo-community] Missing source code for GPL'ed, Maemo's (5) osso-backup

From: Jonathan Wilson jfwfreo at tpgi.com.au
Date: Fri Jun 1 16:57:41 EEST 2012
Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Thursday 31 May 2012 20:34:10 misterc wrote:
>> doubt there is much to this "source code" anyway...
>> basically it is ZIP&  UNZIP&  a bunch of scripts that read /
>> save (backup) respectively write back (restore)
>
> not only. osso-backup has its own encrypting/decrypting algorithm
> for that ZIP files. so encrypted backups cannot be decrypted
> without osso-backup. but jonwil found decrypting functions and
> created simple application for decrypting. For more see:
>
> http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=82801
> http://maemo.org/community/maemo-developers/new_tool_available_to_decrypt_encryped_n900_backups_without_a_n900/
>
> but he used source code of old osso-backup version. for full
> compatibility we need source code of current fremantle version.
I wrote that tool and I can confirm that the encryption logic is the same 
in both N900 osso-backup and in that tool.
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