[epstewart]

Folks,

I invite you to try out the new version, ADEPTKey Generator 2.0 (download it link removed, then unzip it if it doesn't unzip by itself), of my AppleScript-based application that lets Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard users create an adeptkey.der file. That file can then be used by the ineptkey.pyw Python/PyCrypto script to decrypt an Adobe Digital Editions e-book.

Version 2.0 adds the capability to deal with an activation.dat file that was created by Sony Reader software for the Mac, in addition to still working with an activation.dat file generated by the Adobe Digital Editions software itself. The Sony Reader software puts Mac-style return characters, not Unix-style newline characters, in the file. Thank you to the incognito person who provided me with the necessary changes to the Unix "shell script" that my AppleScript uses to extract the adeptkey.der file from activation.dat.

If you want to see the actual AppleScript code, you can download and unzip link removed, which expands into a folder containing both the source AppleScript and the compiled application.

As before, my script makes sure you actually have a ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Digital Editions/activation.dat file. For that reason, you need to Authorize Computer ... in Adobe Digital Editions before running my script. (If you are using Sony Reader software, not ADE, I assume there is an equivalent way to generate ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Digital Editions/activation.dat.)

Also, my script lets you choose any output filename, with adeptkey.der being the default name, and also the folder location for the output file.

I will be very appreciative if as many of you as possible will try my new ADEPTKey Generator 2.0 version and report back in this thread or in a private message to me as to whether it works for you or not. I believe it will work with Snow Leopard but have tried it only on Leopard. I have not tried it with Sony Reader's version of the activation.dat file, either.

Regards to all,
Eric

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