Encrypt data with AES256 in your browser / javascript

I have finished setting up a new tool for in browser AES256 encryption via the javaScrypt library. Included within the page is a tool to produce SHA1 / SHA224 / SHA256 / SHA384 / SHA512 hashes.

The idea was that I has a central place to encrypt and decrypt data any time, any place with no reliance on anything except a web browser. I wanted to use java script so that both mine and your data doesn’t leave the browser and stays confidential.
(Perhaps David Petraeus could have used something like this, the trail might have been even harder to follow had he left the ‘draft’ message encrypted)

I implemented the SHA hashing as a tool to strengthen poor passphrases. The idea being that you use your lame password as input, create the hash and encrypt your data with the 128 character key (SHA512). When you need to decode your data you just do the reverse. Now some valid points to think about are:

  • If you were being targeted and an attacker knew that your password was a SHAx hash then, you would be susceptible to bruteforce attacks against the hash.
  • Using a hash (lower case letters and numbers) will provide less entropy against a fully random password of equal length.
  • I believe (my opinion) that if you can afford to trade the security of someone knowing your password is a hash vs a shorter more complicated password your better off hashing your actual password with SHA512 (128 characters a-z 0-9)
  • Of course your better off with 128 character fully random key but how are you suppose to remember that?

Check it out here: http://www.cammckenzie.com/encrypt/

How to create a new self signed certificate for Citrix VDI-in-a-Box

ssh into your vdi-in-a-box server as user kvm

# Make our temp working area

mkdir keystore
cd keystore

# Run the following command which will create a new keystore, new keypair, a self signed cert that will last 10 years.
# Change HOSTNAME to your public DNS name. eg, remote.acme.com

keytool --genkey --dname "CN=HOSTNAME, OU=VDI-in-a-Box, O=YOUR-BUSINESS,  
 L=YOUR-CITY, ST=YOUR-STATE, C=US" --alias HOSTNAME --keyalg RSA --keysize 2048 --validity 3650 
--keystore kmgr.keystore

# cd into /home/kvm/kvm/install/servlet_container/conf

cd /home/kvm/kvm/install/servlet_container/conf

# Backup the old keystore

mv .keystore .Original-keystore

# Backup the server.xml file

cp server.xml server.Original.xml

# edit the server.xml file
# Find the clientAuth line by searching/typing:
# /clientAuth=
# Verify the keystorePass=”password” entry does not already exist in entire Define a SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8443 section. Add the following line, # replacing “password” with your keystore password:

EG.

    <Connector port="443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true"
               ciphers="SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5, SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, 
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, 
TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, SSL_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,
SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA"
               keystoreFile="conf/.keystore"
               maxThreads="150" scheme="https" secure="true"
               clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" URIEncoding="UTF-8"/>

Would look like:

    <Connector port="443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true"
               ciphers="SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5, SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA,
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,
TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, SSL_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,
SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA"
               keystoreFile="conf/.keystore"
               maxThreads="150" scheme="https" secure="true"
               clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" URIEncoding="UTF-8"
                keystorePass="YOUR-KEYSTORE-PASSWORD"/>

# restart Tomcat

tc_start

Check your new self signed cert is shown in the browser!

hack tool of the week - Responder-1.0

Tool functionalities:

Once this tool is launched, it will join the IGMP group and listen on UDP 5355 port multicast.
This tool will also listen on TCP port 139, 445, 1433, 80 and UDP port 137, if you have any service running on these ports, you will need to stop them prior launching this tool.
The tool will write captured hashes to a file in the current folder for each poisoned host with the following syntax: [SMB/HTTP/SQL]-[NTLMv1/v2]-Client-IP.txt in a John Jumbo format.The SMB server supports Windows ranging from NT4 to Windows Server 2012 RC, Samba, Mac OsX Lion.

http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2012/10/introducing-responder-10.html

How To Obsure / Obfusticate Bash Shell Scripts

I had a requirement to make a shell script obsured or obfusticated.

The first step is to get your bash script and wrap it in some python.

Let take the bash script as an example: (hello.sh)

#!/bin/bash
echo "Hello World"
echo "Hopefully nobody can see these strings of text"

Next modify hello.sh to look like: (hello.sh.py)

#!/usr/bin/python
import zlib, binascii
data = '''
#!/bin/bash
echo "Hello World"
echo "Hopefully nobody can see these strings of text"
'''

compData = zlib.compress(data)
hexData = binascii.hexlify(compData)
print (hexData)

Next execute: python hello.sh.py
You should get the following output:

789c35c8cd0d80200c06d03b537ce200ace1069ef92942d2b4866222db7bf21d9fdbb
790ba8414ad39ca4de10f62569c3ab8f8bff4a6fa302f88262d0b390a8c08b391116c8e2e9741
2b26bdd3bb0fc3a51d13

Copy that string and insert into another file, replacing the data section as per below: (temp.py)

#!/usr/bin/python
import os, sys, stat, zlib, subprocess, tempfile, binascii

data = '789c35c8cd0d80200c06d03b537ce200ace1069ef92942d2b4866222db7bf21d9fdbb790ba8414
ad39ca4de10f62569c3ab8f8bff4a6fa302f88262d0b390a8c08b391116c8e2e97412b26bdd3bb0fc3a51d13'

data = binascii.unhexlify(data)
tmpFile = tempfile.mkstemp()
tmpFile = tmpFile[1]
try:
        fd = os.open(tmpFile, os.O_CREAT|os.O_RDWR)
        f = os.fdopen(fd, 'w')
        f.write(zlib.decompress(data))
        f.write('n')
        f.close()

        os.chmod(tmpFile, 0700) 
        #os.chmod(tmpFile, stat.S_IEXEC) 
        subprocess.Popen(["/bin/bash", tmpFile]).wait()
finally:
        os.remove(tmpFile)

Save that file and load your python interpretor and type the following:

$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Jul 24 2012, 10:05:38) 
[GCC 4.7.0 20120507 (Red Hat 4.7.0-5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import py_compile
>>> py_compile.compile("temp.py")
>>> exit() 

Now cat the .pyc that got created through base64

cat temp.pyc | base64
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Copy that block of data into the following production ready script: (final-product.sh)

#!/bin/bash

DECODED=`mktemp`

cat << EOF | base64 -d > $DECODED
A/MNCgDqv1BjAAAAAAAAAAAFAAAAQAAAAHMcAQAAZAAAZAEAbAAAWgAAZAAAZAEAbAEAWgEAZAAA
ZAEAbAIAWgIAZAAAZAEAbAMAWgMAZAAAZAEAbAQAWgQAZAAAZAEAbAUAWgUAZAAAZAEAbAYAWgYA
ZAIAWgcAZQYAaggAZQcAgwEAWgcAZQUAagkAgwAAWgoAZQoAZAMAGVoKAHqIAGUAAGoLAGUKAGUA
AGoMAGUAAGoNAEKDAgBaDgBlAABqDwBlDgBkBACDAgBaEABlEABqEQBlAwBqEgBlBwCDAQCDAQAB
ZRAAahEAZAUAgwEAAWUQAGoTAIMAAAFlAABqFABlCgBkBgCDAgABZQQAahUAZAcAZQoAZwIAgwEA
ahYAgwAAAVdkAQBlAABqFwBlCgCDAQABWGQBAFMoCAAAAGn/////TnSmAAAANzg5YzM1YzhjZDBk
ODAyMDBjMDZkMDNiNTM3Y2UyMDBhY2UxMDY5ZWY5Mjk0MmQyYjQ4NjYyMjJkYjdiZjIxZDlmZGJi
NzkwYmE4NDE0YWQzOWNhNGRlMTBmNjI1NjljM2FiOGY4YmZmNGE2ZmEzMDJmODgyNjJkMGIzOTBh
OGMwOGIzOTExMTZjOGUyZTk3NDEyYjI2YmRkM2JiMGZjM2E1MWQxM2kBAAAAdAEAAAB3cwEAAAAK
acABAABzCQAAAC9iaW4vYmFzaCgYAAAAdAIAAABvc3QDAAAAc3lzdAQAAABzdGF0dAQAAAB6bGli
dAoAAABzdWJwcm9jZXNzdAgAAAB0ZW1wZmlsZXQIAAAAYmluYXNjaWl0BAAAAGRhdGF0CQAAAHVu
aGV4bGlmeXQHAAAAbWtzdGVtcHQHAAAAdG1wRmlsZXQEAAAAb3BlbnQHAAAAT19DUkVBVHQGAAAA
T19SRFdSdAIAAABmZHQGAAAAZmRvcGVudAEAAABmdAUAAAB3cml0ZXQKAAAAZGVjb21wcmVzc3QF
AAAAY2xvc2V0BQAAAGNobW9kdAUAAABQb3BlbnQEAAAAd2FpdHQGAAAAcmVtb3ZlKAAAAAAoAAAA
ACgAAAAAcwwAAABiYXNoLXRlbXAucHl0CAAAADxtb2R1bGU+AgAAAHMaAAAAVAIGAg8BDAEKAQMB
HAESARYBDQEKAhACHQI=
EOF

python $DECODED
rm $DECODED

Now run ./final-product.sh

Hello World
Hopefully nobody can see these strings of text

Hopefully you can make this useful with your own script! –Cam

Or just use SHC http://www.thegeekst … t-bash-shell-script/

pam_usb on Fedora 17

Apart from this package being rather old, it still works.
You need to install libxml2-devel dbus-devel and pmount

 yum install libxml2-devel dbus-devel pmount 

After the make and make install
Run:

pamusb-conf --add-device MyDevice 

Where you might receive the error:

 Unable to read /etc/pamusb.conf: not well-formed (invalid token): line 43, column 52 

The easiest fix is to delete the whole following example section from /etc/pamusb.conf

                <!-- Example:
                        Authenticate user scox using "MyDevice", and configure pamusb-agent
                        to automatically start/stop gnome-screensaver on key insertion and
                        removal:
                        <user id="scox">
                                <device>MyDevice</device>
                                <option name="quiet">true</option>
                                <agent event="lock">gnome-screensaver-command --lock</agent>
                                <agent event="unlock">gnome-screensaver-command --deactivate</agent>
                        </user>

                        Configure user root to authenticate using MyDevice, but update one
                        time pads at every login (default is 1 hour):
                        <user id="root">
                                <device>MyDevice</device>
                                <option name="pad_expiration">0</option>
                        </user>
                -->

That’s a good boy / girl delete the whole section as above.
Excellent after the rest of your progress you may notice on 64bit builds that it doesn’t work that’s because the build doesn’t care for 64 bit installs so move the pam module into the correct directory:

 mv /lib/security/pam_usb.so /lib64/security/pam_usb.so 

Follow the rest of the instructions and you should be good to go!