Re:Reverse engineering Snapchat to store files
by spullara on Thursday December 19, 2013 @03:20AM
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I presuming without searching that someone has produced a SnapChat-like application that just doesn't delete photos and lets you look at them as long as you like? That seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do and basically impossible for SnapChat to stop.
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Re:Reverse engineering Snapchat to store files
by pencilo on Thursday December 19, 2013 @03:31AM
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Hi, one of the authors here.
A good chunk of the core is from my python Snapchat API(https://github.com/pencilo/pysnapchat) which lets you do things like download snaps and send snaps.
You are correct that it is impossible for them to stop you from downloading the image and saving it. Images are encrypted on upload but they are encrypted using a fixed key in AES-128 ECB, so it doesn't do any good.
The simple truth with Snapchat is they cannot make it impossible to download and save the images without trusted computing support(which they wont get).