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iPhone Windows 10 Microsoft Store Firmware location

July 2nd, 2020 by Richy B. No comments »

I’ve just been trying to recover an old iPhone 5s which is stuck in recovery (DFU) mode and whilst I haven’t yet had any luck getting beyond the Apple logo yet, I hope the following information may help others.

I installed iTunes 12.10.7.3 on my Windows 10 Professional machine using the Microsoft Store (which now appears to be the preferred way Apple is distributing it) and I connected it up, it saw the iPhone and downloaded the 2.9Gb firmware. I did then try a few other applications to try and fix the Apple iPhone but they needed the firmware – but where was it on my machine?

A few sites suggested checking C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes – but that path was empty for me. However, using Windows 10’s resource monitor, I soon spotted the firmware file was at C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\Packages\AppleInc.iTunes_nzyj5cx40ttqa\LocalCache\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPhone Software Updates\iPhone_4.0_64bit_12.4.7_16G192_Restore.ipsw

I suspect the name of the “Package” may differ between iTunes versions, but that should help guide you to the iPhone IPSW firmware file (which I could have also downloaded from http://updates-http.cdn-apple.com/2020SpringFCS/fullrestores/061-94832/B6D93224-1059-4DF0-9438-78CD3BED57FE/iPhone_4.0_64bit_12.4.7_16G192_Restore.ipsw – but “guessing” that URL might have been tricky).

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PHP SplFileInfo string values

April 7th, 2020 by Richy B. No comments »

Whilst PHP’s documentation of SplFileInfo isn’t “bad” as such, it can be tricky to remember what string functions (such as getBasename, getExtension, getFilename, getPath, getPathname, getRealPath and __toString) return under which circumstances. Hence this post!

To generate this data, we’re going to start off with a RecursiveDirectoryIterator with an optional callback filter (to enable us to later on, filter the returned values):

<?php 
$directoryIterator=new \RecursiveDirectoryIterator(
            '/var/task', // test directory
            \RecursiveDirectoryIterator::SKIP_DOTS // ignore "dot files"
        );
       
        $filterIterator = new \CallbackFilterIterator(
            new \RecursiveIteratorIterator($directoryIterator), 
            function (\SplFileInfo $file) {
           // add filter conditions here
            return true;
        });
        /** @var \SplFileInfo $fileInfo */
        foreach ($filterIterator as $fileInfo) {
            $objectNames= [
                'fileInfo',
                'directoryIterator',
                'filterIterator'
            ]; // which objects (defined above) are we interested in
          $methods = [
                'getBasename',
                'getExtension',
                'getFilename',
                'getPath',
                'getPathname',
                'getRealPath',
                '__toString'
            ]; // which methods of those objects do we want to get. 
           foreach ($objectNames as $objectName) {
               foreach ($methods as $method) {
                    print $objectName . '->' .
                        $method . ' = ' .
                        call_user_func([$$objectName, $method]) .
                        PHP_EOL;
               }
           }
           die(); // we only want the first one as an example
        }

Give the file /var/task/assets/fonts/montserrat-v14-latin-700.eot and the “start” directory of /var/task , we get the following:

fileInfo->getBasename = montserrat-v14-latin-700.eot
fileInfo->getExtension = eot
fileInfo->getFilename = montserrat-v14-latin-700.eot
fileInfo->getPath = /var/task/assets/fonts
fileInfo->getPathname = /var/task/assets/fonts/montserrat-v14-latin-700.eot
fileInfo->getRealPath = /var/task/assets/fonts/montserrat-v14-latin-700.eot
fileInfo->__toString = /var/task/assets/fonts/montserrat-v14-latin-700.eot
directoryIterator->getBasename = assets
directoryIterator->getExtension =
directoryIterator->getFilename = assets
directoryIterator->getPath = /var/task
directoryIterator->getPathname = /var/task/assets
directoryIterator->getRealPath = /var/task/assets
directoryIterator->__toString = assets
filterIterator->getBasename = montserrat-v14-latin-700.eot
filterIterator->getExtension = eot
filterIterator->getFilename = montserrat-v14-latin-700.eot
filterIterator->getPath = /var/task/assets/fonts
filterIterator->getPathname = /var/task/assets/fonts/montserrat-v14-latin-700.eot
filterIterator->getRealPath = /var/task/assets/fonts/montserrat-v14-latin-700.eot
filterIterator->__toString = montserrat-v14-latin-700.eot

Hope it’s useful to someone!

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Windows 10 OpenSSH – Configuring Windows Git

August 24th, 2019 by Richy B. No comments »

This article is the last of a series I’ve written about migrating from using PuTTy on Windows to using the native OpenSSH client now available on Windows 10: you can read the rest of the articles via:

If you are using Git for Windows and had previously been using PuTTy, you need to make a small tweak to the configuration for Git to use Windows 10’s OpenSSH client.

If you’ve been getting an error like:

FATAL ERROR: Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey)
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

when running git clone, but a test such as ssh git@github.com works, then you need to do the following steps.

(Perhaps optional): Uninstall Git if you already have it installed. In theory, this can be done from Window’s “Add or Remove Programs”, but this was playing up for me. If you go into C:\Program Files\Git there should be a unins000.exe executable which will remove Git for you
Install the latest version of Git (I actually uninstalled version 2.21.0.windows.1 and installed 2.23.0.windows.1) and during the setup, you’ll be prompt “Choosing the SSH executable”.
Select “Use (Tortoise)Plink“, but enter in the path to Window’s OpenSSH SSH client: “c:\windows\system32\openssh\ssh.exe“ $Select (Tortoise)Plink and provide the path c:\windows\system32\openssh\ssh.exe to the Git setup$
Open a fresh PowerShell window and cloning should work!
You might get a warning such as “warning: agent returned different signature type ssh-rsa (expected rsa-sha2-512)”, but that’s caused by a mismatch of keys and key types probably from the conversion from PuTTy keys. Generating a new public/private key pair and uploading that public key to Github/Bitbucket will fix that.

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Windows 10 OpenSSH – Useful commands

August 24th, 2019 by Richy B. No comments »

This article is the fifth of a series I’ve written about migrating from using PuTTy on Windows to using the native OpenSSH client now available on Windows 10: you can read the rest of the articles via:

Check the keys have been imported to the SSH agent

ssh-add -l

2048 SHA256:9hLEuBRdTBGDmAWxaDXhSwvqYLGVxDVtGiMumz9NUak C:\Users\userName/.ssh/id_rsa (RSA)

Show the public keys in the ssh-agent

ssh-add -L

ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nza...1F53nyTYMlmtcrZZp C:\Users\userName/.ssh/id_rsa

Delete all keys from the ssh-agent

ssh-add -D : hope you kept a backup!

Delete a specific key from the ssh-agent

ssh-add -d C:\Users\userName/.ssh/id_rsa

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Windows 10 OpenSSH – Creating a new private/public key pair

August 24th, 2019 by Richy B. No comments »

This article is the fourth of a series I’ve written about migrating from using PuTTy on Windows to using the native OpenSSH client now available on Windows 10: you can read the rest of the articles via:

If you need a new SSH key pair for Github, Bitbucket, AWS, your own SSH server etc, then the easiest way to generate one is from your user’s PowerShell using the command:
ssh-keygen -o
(the -o argument indicates to use the newer OpenSSH format rather than the pre-2014 older PEM format)

This will produce output such as:

ssh-keygen -o
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (C:\Users\userName/.ssh/id_rsa):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in C:\Users\userName/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in C:\Users\userName/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
SHA256:9hLEuBRdTBGDmAWxaDXhSwvqYLGVxDVtGiMumz9NUak userName@machineName
The key's randomart image is:
+---[RSA 2048]----+
|  ...oOOo=*o     |
|  .o.*+@o ..     |
| ..o= & o        |
| .++ E =         |
|.o=   = S        |
|.=   . . o       |
|  o o   . .      |
|   o .   .       |
|    .            |
+----[SHA256]-----+

Don’t forget to add it to the ssh-agent: if you generated this in the default location ending .ssh/id_rsa(.pub) you can use just ssh-add without any parameters to add it

You’ll need to add the public key to whichever remote service you are using – this can be found using either ssh-add -L (if you’ve added it to the Windows10 OpenSSH ssh-agent) or by cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub (the .pub files are “safe for distribution” – but keep the ones without the .pub extension safe!)

OpenSSH Key-gen additional settings

There are plenty of of pages on the internet detailing the various settings the normal Linux/Unix/MacOS ssh-keygen command takes (and the Windows10 Open SSH variant will take most of them), but a quick reference is:

ssh-keygen -o -c: To add a comment (helps identify keys
ssh-keygen -o -b 4096: To generate a 4096 bit key in the default format (currently rsa)
ssh-keygen -o -t ed25519 -a 100 – recommended!: To generate with the ed25519 complexity with 100 rounds of key derivations (may not be supported by all servers).
The key will end in .ssh/id_ed25519, but you can just add it with “ssh-add” as above as it takes into account all the endings.
ssh-keygen -o -t rsa -b 4096 -a 100: To generate an rsa (default) key with 4096 bits and 100 rounds of key derivations
Windows does supports key generation types of “dsa” which is insecure and “esdsa” which has known weaknesses )

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