https://salti.tech/ Recent content on Salti Hugo -- gohugo.io en Fri, 02 Jun 2023 12:53:56 -0500 https://salti.tech/posts/rfboard/ Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:41:24 -0500 https://salti.tech/posts/rfboard/ I found EE 5140 Microwave Engineering to be a great opportunity for learning analog design at the microwave and RF level. We were tasked with designing a max gain amplifier, a Colpitts oscillator, and a second order Butterworth bandpass filter. I choose a design frequency of 1.57542 GHz for all of these. That may sound like such a specific frequency, but this is the center frequency for the L1 band of GPS. https://salti.tech/posts/primeauth/ Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:15:34 -0500 https://salti.tech/posts/primeauth/ GitHub Repository Instead of pulling out your phone to open the Google Authenticator app to do 2 Factor Authentication, you can instead use this Mac OS menu bar app. It utilizes Apple’s Secure Enclave hardware security. Your fingerprint is requested when you try to grab a authentication code. This is similiar to my previous BriskAuth Browser Extension project except this is more secure and also isn’t hardcoded to a single service login. https://salti.tech/posts/aes_accelerator/ Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:24:17 -0500 https://salti.tech/posts/aes_accelerator/ Designed an AES Accelerator on FPGA for CPRE 4880 Embedded Systems Design. Github Project Background Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a symmetric encryption algorithm. AES is also more of a group; there is AES-128, AES-192, and AES-256 —where the number refers to the size of the blocks in bits. There are different ways AES can be used to provide security, but the most primitive usage of AES is AES-ECB (electronic codebook) where blocks of input are encrypted or decrypted independently with a key. https://salti.tech/posts/larng/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:06:52 -0500 https://salti.tech/posts/larng/ Low Latency True Random Number Generator. Not finished yet. Aiming to have fabricated. https://salti.tech/posts/lte_breakout_pcb/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:46:00 -0500 https://salti.tech/posts/lte_breakout_pcb/ https://salti.tech/posts/mips_32_processor/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:34:10 -0500 https://salti.tech/posts/mips_32_processor/ https://salti.tech/posts/cybottothecage/ Sat, 04 May 2024 02:40:00 -0500 https://salti.tech/posts/cybottothecage/ https://salti.tech/posts/brisk_auth_extention/ Sun, 14 Apr 2024 16:11:42 -0500 https://salti.tech/posts/brisk_auth_extention/ Github: https://github.com/theCow61/brisk_auth_extension Are you being forced to do 2 factor authentication? This may be your solution. The Okta login, even after saying to remeber this device, still may ask for the 2 factor authentication. This can feel very disruptive when you are trying to work, but then you have to pull out your phone. Currently, this is specifically for Iowa State University logins. Make sure to read the safety concerns detailed at the bottom of this page before using this. https://salti.tech/posts/i281fpgagame/ Mon, 11 Dec 2023 11:12:43 -0600 https://salti.tech/posts/i281fpgagame/ i281 Cpu Simulator My digital logic class was offering extra credit, which included programming a game in the classe’s cpu, i281, assembly language. I would say making this game was the funnest part of the class yet (still have finals left). The game is similiar to wack the mole. A “mole” pops out of one of the displays, and you need to smack it with the corresponding switch. https://salti.tech/posts/keyhold/ Fri, 18 Aug 2023 21:39:13 -0500 https://salti.tech/posts/keyhold/ My pre university project. My ideas for this project have expanded so this is my current project as of now. Github Project -- Demos There should have been a video here but your browser does not seem to support it. There should have been a video here but your browser does not seem to support it. There should have been a video here but your browser does not seem to support it. https://salti.tech/posts/writeup_hackthebox_pilgrimage/ Fri, 28 Jul 2023 11:12:49 -0500 https://salti.tech/posts/writeup_hackthebox_pilgrimage/ Pilgrimage from HackTheBox Writeup We have been given the IP 10.10.11.219 Enumeration nmap We will first do the usual nmap scan. nmap -A -sC -sV 10.10.11.219 -oN nmap.log. The webserver wants to redirect us to http://pilgrimage.htb, which we don’t have in our /etc/hosts. To fix this we will add this to our hosts file so it can follow the direct. sudo echo "pilgrimage.htb 10.10.11.219" >> /etc/hosts Rerunning our nmap scan gives us the following: This is more fruitful. https://salti.tech/posts/mega_bot/ Sun, 04 Jun 2023 09:20:12 -0500 https://salti.tech/posts/mega_bot/ Github Project Inspiration During this time, I had recently learned C# and was thinking about a project to do with it. I decided to make a telegram bot that assigns users in a group a virtual currency which they can manage. Users could earn this currency by using certain defined words in their messages. This was also a good way of statistically being able to tell what kind of terminology gets used throughout a group chat on telegram. https://salti.tech/posts/taxy/ Sun, 04 Jun 2023 09:11:14 -0500 https://salti.tech/posts/taxy/ Github Project Inspiration The best way to learn a language is through a project that incorporates many aspects of technology that would have to get wielded through the language you are learning. Though, it’s rare I ever start a a project out with the image in my head of how it actually ends up to be. For example, the telegram bot projects started for a simple purpose then were expanded to the point where they had a bunch of different functions. https://salti.tech/posts/rust_bot/ Sun, 04 Jun 2023 09:09:07 -0500 https://salti.tech/posts/rust_bot/ A rust port of The Mega Bot I sadly did not fully finish the port, so it lacks the features of the mega bot. https://salti.tech/posts/hacktivityconctf/ Sun, 04 Jun 2023 08:58:37 -0500 https://salti.tech/posts/hacktivityconctf/ Capture the flag event This is one of the first major capture the flag events I participated in in a serious manner. Along the way, I joined a team participating in this event, and we worked together. I placed 75th place with my team which is better than I thought I would do considering the scale of this competition and big shot competition that was also participating. https://salti.tech/posts/mega_server/ Sat, 03 Jun 2023 22:33:07 -0500 https://salti.tech/posts/mega_server/ This project is important to me because it was one of my first major projects I had done, back in sixth grade. It tied a lot of things I was learning at the time together. I was playing around with PHP, and I wanted to make an application that had accounts where you could login. I don’t think I was completely sure what to do past that at that time, but one step at a time is probably what I was thinking. https://salti.tech/posts/flipperzero_calculator/ Sat, 03 Jun 2023 12:12:40 -0500 https://salti.tech/posts/flipperzero_calculator/ Github Project What is a “Flipper Zero?" Inspiration I know I learn best by jumping into the deep end first. Yea I could learn C by first dabbling into it on the normal x86 architecture, and I probably could have played arround with my raspberry pi a little too for embedded systems. But why not do it all at once: code an application in C on a embedded device that has buggy undocumented firmware. https://salti.tech/posts/best-way-to-learn-linux/ Sat, 03 Jun 2023 11:56:12 -0500 https://salti.tech/posts/best-way-to-learn-linux/ The title is a bit “misleading.” I more mean “The Fastest Way to Learn Linux.” And also while I am at it, I need to clarify “learn.” Not learn as in textbook memorize what to do or whatever but to understand linux and feel confident using it. You have to start with Arch Linux , and you need to go through that pain of installing it yourself, no scripts. https://salti.tech/about/ Fri, 02 Jun 2023 12:37:57 -0500 https://salti.tech/about/ My name is Zane Firas Salti. I am interested in all things technology (programming, cyber, embedded, physical, etc), though javascript is a different story (maybe I will write a post about this), all things math, and all things challenging.