As reported in French by TI-BANK, it seems that bsl might have managed to bypass the RSA protection on the TI-Nspire in some ways. He has released a program called DiagsLauncher, that allows you to launch any Diagnostic software images (stored in a .tns file) on your TI-Nspire, ignoring any protection against executing such image on the calculator:



Normally, the TI-Nspire includes a diagnostic software that can be accessed by holding Esc+Menu+G (ClickPad) or Esc+Menu+Moins (TouchPad) on boot. However, it is possible that your calculator doesn't include this software or that you might have previously deleted it. Also, some might have an older version that doesn't include as many options, such as ones for the Touchpad keypad.

Unfortunately, TI didn't make it possible to re-install this software on your calculator or even update it. If you deleted it, it's gone forever. With DiagsLauncher, this problem is solved. Although this software might not be useful for the average calculator user, these images contains interesting test features that can be useful for developers and could possibly allow them to accomplish even more things on the calculator in the future. Not only that, but since this software completely ignores the RSA signature of the model (TI-Nspire, TI-Nspire CAS or even prototypes) to launch diagnostic images of any commercial models or prototypes, could this mean such method could be applied to the boot1, boot2 or even the OS?

DiagsLauncher is available in TI-BANK archives.

This looks sweet, so we can access that menu, which I never heard of, in other times rather than when booting
It also seems like we're closer from getting the RSA algorithm

This looks sweet, so we can access that menu, which I never heard of, in other times rather than when booting
It also seems like we're closer from getting the RSA algorithm

What RSA algorithm? Are you talking about solving the RSA problem? If so, I know of no algorithm to solve it.

Quote from: Scout on March 29, 2011, 07:44:56 am

This looks sweet, so we can access that menu, which I never heard of, in other times rather than when booting
It also seems like we're closer from getting the RSA algorithm

What RSA algorithm? Are you talking about solving the RSA problem? If so, I know of no algorithm to solve it.

I mean whatever lets you make 3rd party OSs, which I think is the RSA key, right?

Now if only we could use this method to launch an OS image... maybe we could have some sort of Linux for the TI-Nspire, even if not executed directly on boot like the regular OS?

I'M not sure yet, but as the news says, maybe the same method could be used to do so.

It's probably what the (never released) RunOS was using.

I just got my nspire today (YAY!), do you think it would be safe to test loading an OS this way?

I'm not sure I see the point in running OSes this way.

It could be nice to be able to run significantly different versions, like have 2.x installed for Ndless but run 3.0 for the additional math features (e.g. 3d graphing), but this doesn't work too well because you get mixed-up text that basically makes everything incomprehensible (see below for an example - 2.1 running on a 2.0.1 installation).

If you want to run your own code, just make it its own Ndless program. No reason to make extra work for yourself by putting it in .tno format.