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3DS

The 3DS Cryptosystem

Apr 6, 2016 yifanlu

Cosmo3DS: The CFW nobody wanted

Mar 28, 2016 yifanlu

3DS Code Injection through “Loader”

Mar 28, 2016 yifanlu

Opening Up CARDBOARD: Crafting an American New 3DS (non-XL)

Apr 22, 2015 yifanlu

Nintendo 3DS System Updater

Mar 23, 2015 yifanlu

Reversing Gateway Ultra Stage 3: Owning ARM9 Kernel

Jan 17, 2015 yifanlu

Reversing Gateway Ultra Stage 2: Owning ARM11 Kernel

Jan 15, 2015 yifanlu

Reversing Gateway Ultra First Stage (Part 2)

Jan 12, 2015 yifanlu

Reversing Gateway Ultra First Stage (Part 1)

Jan 10, 2015 yifanlu

Announcements

Welcome Jekyll!

Aug 21, 2016 yifanlu

HENkaku KOTH Challenge

Aug 5, 2016 yifanlu

HENkaku: Vita homebrew for everyone

Jul 28, 2016 yifanlu

How To Register and Download for PSM (Shutdown Bypass)

Jun 15, 2015 yifanlu

Rejuvenate: Native homebrew for PSVita

Jun 14, 2015 yifanlu

PS Vita 3.30 Filesystem Listing

Oct 17, 2014 yifanlu

I need your help to fund Vita hardware analysis

Dec 12, 2013 yifanlu

[April Fools] Yifan Lu has been acquired by Electronic Arts Inc.

Apr 1, 2012 yifanlu

[April Fools] Electronic Arts Inc. announces the closing of Yifan Lu

Apr 1, 2012 yifanlu

Welcome to the new yifan.lu!

Jan 12, 2012 yifanlu

And now for something different…

Jun 8, 2011 yifanlu

Welcome to yifan.lu!

Jan 30, 2011 yifanlu

Site Updates + iPhone Support

Jan 28, 2010 yifanlu

Goodbye Habbo!

Oct 17, 2009 yifanlu

Welcome to the new www.yifanlu.com!

Oct 5, 2008 yifanlu

Assembly

Opening Up CARDBOARD: Crafting an American New 3DS (non-XL)

Apr 22, 2015 yifanlu

Reversing Gateway Ultra Stage 3: Owning ARM9 Kernel

Jan 17, 2015 yifanlu

Reversing Gateway Ultra Stage 2: Owning ARM11 Kernel

Jan 15, 2015 yifanlu

Reversing Gateway Ultra First Stage (Part 2)

Jan 12, 2015 yifanlu

Reversing Gateway Ultra First Stage (Part 1)

Jan 10, 2015 yifanlu

Unlocking T-Mobile 4G Hotspot (ZTE MF61): A case study

Mar 7, 2012 yifanlu

Reversing the Xperia Play emulator (part deux)

Nov 27, 2011 yifanlu

Reverse engineering a dynamic library on the Xperia Play

Aug 7, 2011 yifanlu

Analyzing the PSX emulator on the Xperia Play

Aug 1, 2011 yifanlu

Porting Kindle 3.1: Part 2 - Update encryption

Apr 2, 2011 yifanlu

Quickguide: Bypassing Lenovo S10 BIOS Whitelist

Mar 2, 2011 yifanlu

C

Cosmo3DS: The CFW nobody wanted

Mar 28, 2016 yifanlu

3DS Code Injection through “Loader”

Mar 28, 2016 yifanlu

Opening Up CARDBOARD: Crafting an American New 3DS (non-XL)

Apr 22, 2015 yifanlu

Reversing Gateway Ultra Stage 3: Owning ARM9 Kernel

Jan 17, 2015 yifanlu

Reversing Gateway Ultra Stage 2: Owning ARM11 Kernel

Jan 15, 2015 yifanlu

libVitaMTP & OpenCMA: Vita content management on Linux (and more)

May 4, 2013 yifanlu

Devices

Modem Cloning for Fun (but NOT for profit!)

Apr 2, 2017 yifanlu

Embedded

Unbricking SHIELD TV (2015) with a Bootrom Exploit

Jun 17, 2022 yifanlu

Guides

Opening Up CARDBOARD: Crafting an American New 3DS (non-XL)

Apr 22, 2015 yifanlu

How to Disassemble Vita Game Cartridges

Feb 17, 2014 yifanlu

Updates on the Vita Hardware Hacking project

Dec 30, 2013 yifanlu

Removing the CPU and NAND from PSVita

Dec 18, 2013 yifanlu

Unlimited Backgrounding on iOS

Dec 17, 2013 yifanlu

Unlocking T-Mobile 4G Hotspot (ZTE MF61): A case study

Mar 7, 2012 yifanlu

Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview (8102) on a USB Drive (Windows To Go/Portable Workspace)

Sep 17, 2011 yifanlu

Recovering a formatted or corrupt Kindle 2

Apr 2, 2011 yifanlu

Quickguide: Bypassing Lenovo S10 BIOS Whitelist

Mar 2, 2011 yifanlu

Creating a PSP FreeCheat Memory Patch

Feb 16, 2011 yifanlu

Update: T-Mobile Proxy released: Free unlimited EDGE internet without any plans (for now)

Jan 3, 2011 yifanlu

Free 3G/EDGE internet on any T-Mobile phone without a data plan

Dec 10, 2010 yifanlu

Load Creative Zen V Plus’s firmware on your Zen V

Aug 19, 2010 yifanlu

Compiling the Linux kernel for Amazon Kindle

Jul 26, 2010 yifanlu

Information

On the future of Rejuvenate

Jun 24, 2015 yifanlu

Secure your eMMC devices!

Jun 5, 2015 yifanlu

Calling all coders: We need you to help create an open Vita SDK!

May 23, 2015 yifanlu

Reversing Gateway Ultra First Stage (Part 1)

Jan 10, 2015 yifanlu

Why hacking the Vita is hard (or: a history of first hacks)

Sep 10, 2013 yifanlu

PlayStation Vita: the progress and the plan

Dec 12, 2012 yifanlu

Welcome to the new yifan.lu!

Jan 12, 2012 yifanlu

And now for something different…

Jun 8, 2011 yifanlu

Welcome to yifan.lu!

Jan 30, 2011 yifanlu

New Year: Domain garage sell!

Dec 31, 2010 yifanlu

Free 3G/EDGE internet on any T-Mobile phone without a data plan

Dec 10, 2010 yifanlu

New projects and new ads

Oct 29, 2010 yifanlu

Recode of Josh

Apr 25, 2010 yifanlu

Site Updates + iPhone Support

Jan 28, 2010 yifanlu

Making a Facebook app…

Jan 3, 2010 yifanlu

First beta of Josh released

Nov 6, 2009 yifanlu

Project Josh announced!

Nov 5, 2009 yifanlu

Goodbye Habbo!

Oct 17, 2009 yifanlu

What I’m working on

Apr 3, 2009 yifanlu

Winter Break brings updates!

Dec 25, 2008 yifanlu

Welcome to the new www.yifanlu.com!

Oct 5, 2008 yifanlu

Java

PSXperia: Converts any PSX game to work on Xperia Play

Aug 11, 2011 yifanlu

JoshPong: A Pong game in Windows Console written in Java

Sep 10, 2010 yifanlu

ASCIIMan: A Windows Console platformer game written in Java

May 29, 2010 yifanlu

Josh 1.0 Released

May 9, 2010 yifanlu

Recode of Josh

Apr 25, 2010 yifanlu

Update to TweetBot

Apr 11, 2010 yifanlu

Update Foursquare from Twitter

Apr 10, 2010 yifanlu

First beta of Josh released

Nov 6, 2009 yifanlu

Project Josh announced!

Nov 5, 2009 yifanlu

Kindle

Kindle Touch (5.0) Jailbreak/Root and SSH

Dec 10, 2011 yifanlu

Analyzing Kindle 4.0

Sep 28, 2011 yifanlu

Kindle 3.2.1 Jailbreak (Update)

Sep 1, 2011 yifanlu

One more thing: custom recovery kernel for Kindle 3

Jun 25, 2011 yifanlu

Kindle 3.2.1 Jailbreak

Jun 2, 2011 yifanlu

Kindle 3.X updater for Kindle 2 and Kindle DX released

May 29, 2011 yifanlu

Porting Kindle 3.1: Part 3 – Update packaging script

Apr 3, 2011 yifanlu

Recovering a formatted or corrupt Kindle 2

Apr 2, 2011 yifanlu

Porting Kindle 3.1: Part 2 - Update encryption

Apr 2, 2011 yifanlu

Kindle 3.1 Jailbreak

Feb 21, 2011 yifanlu

Compiling the Linux kernel for Amazon Kindle

Jul 26, 2010 yifanlu

Objective-C

Unlimited Backgrounding on iOS

Dec 17, 2013 yifanlu

PHP

Ajax Word Search Solver

Feb 2, 2011 yifanlu

PS3 update link finder site

Oct 21, 2010 yifanlu

Google Apps User Registration Script

Feb 19, 2010 yifanlu

My first iPhone app (kind-of)

Apr 19, 2009 yifanlu

What I’m working on

Apr 3, 2009 yifanlu

IPA Manager, HoloCMS updated

Feb 20, 2009 yifanlu

PS Vita

HENkaku KOTH Challenge

Aug 5, 2016 yifanlu

HENkaku: Vita homebrew for everyone

Jul 28, 2016 yifanlu

CGEN for IDA Pro

Dec 29, 2015 yifanlu

Rejuvenate for Unity (and VitaTV support)

Aug 8, 2015 yifanlu

On the future of Rejuvenate

Jun 24, 2015 yifanlu

Hacking the PS Vita

Jun 21, 2015 yifanlu

Rejuvenate Public Beta Release

Jun 20, 2015 yifanlu

Rejuvenate: Native homebrew for PSVita

Jun 14, 2015 yifanlu

Calling all coders: We need you to help create an open Vita SDK!

May 23, 2015 yifanlu

You Should Register for PSM

May 7, 2015 yifanlu

How to Disassemble Vita Game Cartridges

Feb 17, 2014 yifanlu

Dumping the Vita NAND

Jan 11, 2014 yifanlu

PS Vita NAND Pinout (Updated)

Jan 4, 2014 yifanlu

Random observations on Vita logic board

Dec 22, 2013 yifanlu

PS Vita NAND Pinout

Dec 19, 2013 yifanlu

Removing the CPU and NAND from PSVita

Dec 18, 2013 yifanlu

I need your help to fund Vita hardware analysis

Dec 12, 2013 yifanlu

Why hacking the Vita is hard (or: a history of first hacks)

Sep 10, 2013 yifanlu

libVitaMTP & OpenCMA: Vita content management on Linux (and more)

May 4, 2013 yifanlu

PlayStation Vita: the progress and the plan

Dec 12, 2012 yifanlu

Playstation Vita progress report

Aug 18, 2012 yifanlu

Playstation Vita’s USB MTP Connection Analyzed

Feb 18, 2012 yifanlu

Paper

Attacking Hardware AES with DFA

Feb 22, 2019 yifanlu

Injecting Software Vulnerabilities with Voltage Glitching

Jan 10, 2019 yifanlu

Qualcomm

Huawei E587 (T-Mobile 4G Sonic Hotspot): Information and rooting

Dec 31, 2012 yifanlu

Unlocking T-Mobile 4G Hotspot (ZTE MF61): A case study

Mar 7, 2012 yifanlu

Releases

HENkaku Update

Aug 27, 2016 yifanlu

Cosmo3DS: The CFW nobody wanted

Mar 28, 2016 yifanlu

CGEN for IDA Pro

Dec 29, 2015 yifanlu

Rejuvenate for Unity (and VitaTV support)

Aug 8, 2015 yifanlu

Rejuvenate Public Beta Release

Jun 20, 2015 yifanlu

Kindle Touch (5.0) Jailbreak/Root and SSH

Dec 10, 2011 yifanlu

Kindle 3.2.1 Jailbreak (Update)

Sep 1, 2011 yifanlu

PSXperia: Converts any PSX game to work on Xperia Play

Aug 11, 2011 yifanlu

One more thing: custom recovery kernel for Kindle 3

Jun 25, 2011 yifanlu

Kindle 3.2.1 Jailbreak

Jun 2, 2011 yifanlu

Kindle 3.X updater for Kindle 2 and Kindle DX released

May 29, 2011 yifanlu

Kindle 3.1 Jailbreak

Feb 21, 2011 yifanlu

Ajax Word Search Solver

Feb 2, 2011 yifanlu

Update: T-Mobile Proxy released: Free unlimited EDGE internet without any plans (for now)

Jan 3, 2011 yifanlu

OSX FaceTime auto-accept script

Oct 22, 2010 yifanlu

PS3 update link finder site

Oct 21, 2010 yifanlu

JoshPong: A Pong game in Windows Console written in Java

Sep 10, 2010 yifanlu

ASCIIMan: A Windows Console platformer game written in Java

May 29, 2010 yifanlu

Josh 1.0 Released

May 9, 2010 yifanlu

Update to TweetBot

Apr 11, 2010 yifanlu

Update Foursquare from Twitter

Apr 10, 2010 yifanlu

Google Apps User Registration Script

Feb 19, 2010 yifanlu

First beta of Josh released

Nov 6, 2009 yifanlu

My first iPhone app (kind-of)

Apr 19, 2009 yifanlu

IPA Manager, HoloCMS updated

Feb 20, 2009 yifanlu

Scheme

CGEN for IDA Pro

Dec 29, 2015 yifanlu

Scripts

OSX FaceTime auto-accept script

Oct 22, 2010 yifanlu

Technical

Foobar, Blossoms, and Isomorphism

Sep 13, 2017 yifanlu

Array Shuffling with Additive Generators

Oct 2, 2016 yifanlu

The 3DS Cryptosystem

Apr 6, 2016 yifanlu

3DS Code Injection through “Loader”

Mar 28, 2016 yifanlu

Hacking the PS Vita

Jun 21, 2015 yifanlu

Opening Up CARDBOARD: Crafting an American New 3DS (non-XL)

Apr 22, 2015 yifanlu

Nintendo 3DS System Updater

Mar 23, 2015 yifanlu

Reversing Gateway Ultra Stage 3: Owning ARM9 Kernel

Jan 17, 2015 yifanlu

Reversing Gateway Ultra Stage 2: Owning ARM11 Kernel

Jan 15, 2015 yifanlu

Reversing Gateway Ultra First Stage (Part 2)

Jan 12, 2015 yifanlu

Dumping the Vita NAND

Jan 11, 2014 yifanlu

Huawei E587 (T-Mobile 4G Sonic Hotspot): Information and rooting

Dec 31, 2012 yifanlu

Playstation Vita progress report

Aug 18, 2012 yifanlu

Unlocking T-Mobile 4G Hotspot (ZTE MF61): A case study

Mar 7, 2012 yifanlu

Playstation Vita’s USB MTP Connection Analyzed

Feb 18, 2012 yifanlu

Reversing the Xperia Play emulator (part deux)

Nov 27, 2011 yifanlu

Analyzing Kindle 4.0

Sep 28, 2011 yifanlu

Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview (8102) on a USB Drive (Windows To Go/Portable Workspace)

Sep 17, 2011 yifanlu

Kindle 3.2.1 Jailbreak (Update)

Sep 1, 2011 yifanlu

Reverse engineering a dynamic library on the Xperia Play

Aug 7, 2011 yifanlu

Analyzing the PSX emulator on the Xperia Play

Aug 1, 2011 yifanlu

Porting Kindle 3.1: Part 3 – Update packaging script

Apr 3, 2011 yifanlu

Recovering a formatted or corrupt Kindle 2

Apr 2, 2011 yifanlu

Porting Kindle 3.1: Part 2 - Update encryption

Apr 2, 2011 yifanlu

Quickguide: Bypassing Lenovo S10 BIOS Whitelist

Mar 2, 2011 yifanlu

Kindle 3.1 Jailbreak

Feb 21, 2011 yifanlu

Creating a PSP FreeCheat Memory Patch

Feb 16, 2011 yifanlu

Free 3G/EDGE internet on any T-Mobile phone without a data plan

Dec 10, 2010 yifanlu

Load Creative Zen V Plus’s firmware on your Zen V

Aug 19, 2010 yifanlu

Compiling the Linux kernel for Amazon Kindle

Jul 26, 2010 yifanlu

Vita

Glitching a $20k Piece of History

Aug 16, 2019 yifanlu

Attacking Hardware AES with DFA

Feb 22, 2019 yifanlu

The First F00D Exploit

Jan 11, 2019 yifanlu

Injecting Software Vulnerabilities with Voltage Glitching

Jan 10, 2019 yifanlu

Vita HDMI Mod (Attempt)

Dec 31, 2017 yifanlu

psvsd: Custom Vita microSD card adapter

Aug 22, 2017 yifanlu

HENkaku Ensō bootloader hack for Vita

Jul 31, 2017 yifanlu

psvimgtools: Decrypt Vita Backups

Feb 19, 2017 yifanlu

State of the Vita 2016

Dec 31, 2016 yifanlu

Designing taiHEN: A CFW Framework

Nov 17, 2016 yifanlu

taiHEN: CFW Framework for PS Vita

Nov 1, 2016 yifanlu

HENkaku KOTH Solved

Oct 20, 2016 yifanlu

Yes, it’s a kernel exploit!

Aug 28, 2016 yifanlu

HENkaku Update

Aug 27, 2016 yifanlu

Vita Hardware Hacking

How to Disassemble Vita Game Cartridges

Feb 17, 2014 yifanlu

Dumping the Vita NAND

Jan 11, 2014 yifanlu

PS Vita NAND Pinout (Updated)

Jan 4, 2014 yifanlu

Updates on the Vita Hardware Hacking project

Dec 30, 2013 yifanlu

Random observations on Vita logic board

Dec 22, 2013 yifanlu

PS Vita NAND Pinout

Dec 19, 2013 yifanlu

Removing the CPU and NAND from PSVita

Dec 18, 2013 yifanlu

Xperia Play

Reversing the Xperia Play emulator (part deux)

Nov 27, 2011 yifanlu

PSXperia: Converts any PSX game to work on Xperia Play

Aug 11, 2011 yifanlu

Reverse engineering a dynamic library on the Xperia Play

Aug 7, 2011 yifanlu

Analyzing the PSX emulator on the Xperia Play

Aug 1, 2011 yifanlu

iPhone

Unlimited Backgrounding on iOS

Dec 17, 2013 yifanlu
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