FREE Unique Push Certificate in Cydia
Hello,
Hacktivated iphone users rejoice.
Now you can get your FREE unique push/youtube certificate through Cydia.
"Anethema" has put together a package named "Push Doctor" and it is available in Cydia. Here is Anethema's thoughts on the package.
The original text can be found here and here
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History:
When the dev team released the jailbreak oh so long ago, it quickly came to attention that users on non 'legit' carriers could not see any push notifications from any of their push enabled apps.
Some very smart people in the dev team began looking at the problem and the results were nimble, which extracted whatever cert's you may have, and inject, which injected certs into your keychain.
In preliminary testing it was found however that re-using my certs over and over again resulted in a massive amount of push's going to the wrong phone. There was no real solution to this, it was simply suggested you try to get some certs from your friend's phone or another source. Until now.
The fix:
I've found a way to generate these en-masse to supply a proper fix for all you hacktivators out there. Installing the app will simply download and inject unique certs into your phone's keychain. This is still using the dev-team's inject and nimble and a ton of this credit should be going to them. Speaking of which..
Thanks:
I was not the first to come up with this idea, four industrious hackers, Aviegas, Volkspost, Olethros and dtube, had made inroads into cert generation, and their groundwork allowed me to get anywhere near as far as I did. dtube expecially brought this to my attention and was a big help through the entire process.
The iphone dev-team and CPICH in particular (and planetbeing who wrote a lot of the code, we miss you man) made the tools nimble and inject, and all of that code is WAY above my head. Safe to say this would not have happened without them. Nimble and inject are really the core of and a huge part of this, I can't state this enough. CPICH gave me permission to distribute this app freely as long as my 'app' itself was free, which it always will be. I'll pass the torch before I'll charge a dime.
geohot helped me get over a stumbling block that was a huge stoppper in the automation of cert generation, big thanks to him too.
Thanks EvilPenguin| who helped me learn about packaging, and _BigBoss_ who showed me the proper way to do some stuff too.
Thanks also to cmdshft, who is hosting the app on his repo, and the text you're reading now.
Please add this source into your Cydia:
cmdshft.ipwn.me/apt/
Push Doctor can be found under section Tweaks
Re: FREE Unique Push Certificate in Cydia
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Originally Posted by dborca
Hats off for the initiative.
BTW, is there a mechanism to avoid (possible) collisions? IP-based?
Each cert is verified unique via md5 hash. Md5 is not foolproof but risk of collisions extremely unlikely.
Re: FREE Unique Push Certificate in Cydia
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Originally Posted by truehybridx
ahh this will definatly shutdown the ppl trying to sell a fix for push :P including me but eh no harm there... that was too much bs work
You are welcome to become a donor. The more donors the better. Demand is very much outstripping supply right now.
As of yesterday donors had to have mac but as most of the grunt work is done on the phone, a windows donor script will probably be available soon.
Also there is still an opportunity to charge for push cert troubleshooting. That is the approach that the person behind pushfix.info is intending to take.
