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Originally Posted by kjk
This would be awesome  |
OK, I have made an AppleScript script that can generate an ADEPT Key in an
adeptkey.der file (or a file by any other name the user chooses) on a Mac OS X platform. You can download this script's .zip file from
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This is a script in the form of an application called
ADEPTKey_Generator_1.1a. To use it, un-zip the
ADEPTKey_Generator_1.1a.app.zip file to retrieve the script app. Then double click on the script app's icon. A standard
"Where should I put the ADEPT key output file?" dialog will appear. You can
Save As: any file name (default is
adeptkey.der) to any folder (default is
Desktop).
The script then uses "shell script" UNIX code provided by one of the participants in this thread to generate a "private key" that is saved in the ADEPT key output file and then can be used by the
ineptepub.py Python script to decrypt downloaded ADE books.
ADEPTKey_Generator_1.1a should not be used until the user has (1) created an Adobe account online using a web browser and then (2) authorized that account in Adobe Digital Editions on the Mac. It requires that a
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Digital Editions/activation.dat file be present in the user's home folder hierarchy. Activating/authorizing the ADE account causes that file to be created.
Also, if more than one user have ADE accounts, the most recent one authorized is the one
ADEPTKey_Generator_1.1a will use in generating the ADEPT Key.
Edited on 12/4/2009 to refer to
ADEPTKey Generator 1.1a, which is now compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard." The previous version of this script application, 1.1, generated an error condition in S.L. The reason apparently was that S.L. expects a script app to be not an "application" per se but what was called an "application bundle" by the Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" Script Editor. I had saved it as a plain "application." Apparently, if the same source code is saved, in Script Editor under S.L., as an "application," the result is the same as an "application bundle" under Leopard. Under S.L., there is no option to save as an "application bundle" any more. I am running Leopard at this time, not S.L., so I can't actually test that.