Incognito

incognito
Wipes personal information from your Nintendo Switch by removing it from prodinfo.

purpose
a) So your switch can go online without worrying about a ban or using random dogdy DNS servers that are also likely to get you banned.

b) so malicious homebrew applications cannot steal your personal certificate.

disclaimer
Always have a nand backup. I am not responsible for any bricks or bans. Use at your own risk, experimental.

This application backs up your prodinfo to the SD root, you should keep this backup in a more secure location, and not leave it on the SD card where malicious applications can read it.

https://github.com/blawar/incognito

edit: atmosphere blocks writes to CAL0, so you must use ReiNX or SX OS to install this. Once installed, you can switch back to atmosphere.

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I'm trying to restore prodinfo.bin, which I've copied to the /backup/ directory
incognito gives me “error: failed writing hash,” what should I do? I'm on 9.2.0|AMS 0.12.0|S
I've also enabled these flags to no avail:
enable_hbl_bis_write (in system_settings.ini)
enable_hbl_cal_read (in system_settings.ini)
allow_writing_to_cal_sysmmc (in exosphere.ini)​
 

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I'm trying to restore prodinfo.bin, which I've copied to the /backup/ directory
incognito gives me “error: failed writing hash,” what should I do? I'm on 9.2.0|AMS 0.12.0|S
I've also enabled these flags to no avail:
enable_hbl_bis_write (in system_settings.ini)
enable_hbl_cal_read (in system_settings.ini)
allow_writing_to_cal_sysmmc (in exosphere.ini)​
You'll probably have more luck with Incognito_RCM, it doesn't need special permissions as the homebrew does with Atmosphere.
 
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I'll join the conversation just to give a personal feedback on 90DNS.
I've a switch, i fully nand backuped it and then i modded it.
i've been online countless times with 90DNS enabled.
Once i've restored the intial backup i've been able to go online without problems, and i still do play online and use the eshop regularly, proving that 90DNS in fact does prevent a ban
(implying the nand backup you have is 100% clean).
Are you still not banned?
 

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Hmmm incognito seems to hang when im trying to restore the prodinfo_sysnand.bin file says....

Getting bis_keys.....
Got Keys!
Validate....OK!
Current serial: [XAW000000000000000]

Restoring from sd:/prodinfo_sysnand.bin....
Reading from file....
Verifying client cert has and CAL0 Hash from backup......

but its been sat at that step from about 5 minutes now
 

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Hmmm incognito seems to hang when im trying to restore the prodinfo_sysnand.bin file says....

Getting bis_keys.....
Got Keys!
Validate....OK!
Current serial: [XAW000000000000000]

Restoring from sd:/prodinfo_sysnand.bin....
Reading from file....
Verifying client cert has and CAL0 Hash from backup......

but its been sat at that step from about 5 minutes now
Let it sit there for a while longer.
 

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i forgot the password to restore incognito on hbgshop.
is there any specific requirement for the password ? like how many char and upper case lower case etc?
might be able to guess if i have a hint lol...

otherwise how do i get rid of incognito if i have all the needed backup?

thank you.
 

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i forgot the password to restore incognito on hbgshop.
is there any specific requirement for the password ? like how many char and upper case lower case etc?
might be able to guess if i have a hint lol...

otherwise how do i get rid of incognito if i have all the needed backup?

thank you.
If you have a rawnand backup of your nand from before you ran incognito you can use hacdiskmount plus your keys to dump the prodinfo from the backup then restore it on the switch.
 

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i forgot the password to restore incognito on hbgshop.
is there any specific requirement for the password ? like how many char and upper case lower case etc?
might be able to guess if i have a hint lol...

otherwise how do i get rid of incognito if i have all the needed backup?

thank you.

Try an empty password. You may not have set one previously.
 

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Try an empty password. You may not have set one previously.

hmm.didn't think to try that.
but another problem is, today when I want to try going into incognito, turned out tinfoil already updated by the kids and no incognito option anymore? it's tinfoil v11 9.00.

can i go back to previous version ?

sorry, getting old. and somehow things that used to be simple, getting hard to comprehend and do :)
 

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If I use incognito in cfw with emunand, should I restore my prodinfo when I want to launch ofw again on sysnand ?
 

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One problem, REI AN SX OS DONT WORK ON 11.0.1

Yes ReiNX is deprecated and is no longer updated, SXOS is uncertain of future


if we manage to randomize prodinfo, nintendo should be unable to ban us right ?

It's not just prodinfo, it's the consoles internal certificates which are banned (which are stored in prodinfo iirc)
 

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