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xifer · 10-15-2020, 12:01 AM

I imagine this has been tried long ago, but has anyone been able to reverse engineer the sync protocol built into the kindle 4?

Off the top of my head a man-in-the-middle "attack" seems doable involving mitmproxy and changing /etc/hosts (or via DNS) and replacing ssl/tls keys in /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt and /usr/lib/java/cacerts.

Doesn't seem too involved with ssh access to the kindle... Does anyone know if this been done before or are there additional protections that prevent reverse engineering this?

10-15-2020, 12:01 AM	#1
xifer Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2020 Device: Kindle 4	sync reverse engineering I imagine this has been tried long ago, but has anyone been able to reverse engineer the sync protocol built into the kindle 4? Off the top of my head a man-in-the-middle "attack" seems doable involving mitmproxy and changing /etc/hosts (or via DNS) and replacing ssl/tls keys in /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt and /usr/lib/java/cacerts. Doesn't seem too involved with ssh access to the kindle... Does anyone know if this been done before or are there additional protections that prevent reverse engineering this?