diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ea8c4bf..96ef6c0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 /target
+Cargo.lock
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 3fab193..0013026 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,11 @@ edition = "2021"
 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
 
 [dependencies]
+derive_builder = "0.11"
+rand = { version = "0.8", features = ["getrandom"] }
+regex = "1.5"
 reqwest = { version = "0.11", features = ["json", "cookies"] }
+thiserror = "1.0"
 
 [[bin]]
 name = "vodafone_runner"
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 8cd4114..ef5f593 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
 pub mod station;
+
+#[macro_use]
+extern crate derive_builder;
diff --git a/src/station.rs b/src/station.rs
index 4a124f1..84b0545 100644
--- a/src/station.rs
+++ b/src/station.rs
@@ -1,43 +1,157 @@
 pub mod station {
-	pub use reqwest::Client;
-	use reqwest::header;
-	use std::time::Duration;
+    pub use reqwest::Client;
 
-	#[derive(Debug)]
-	pub struct VodafoneStation {
-		host: String,
-		client: Client,
-		session_id: String,
-		nonce: String,
-		csrf_nonce: String,
-		init_vector: String,
-		salt: String,
-		key: String,
-		cookie: String,
-	}
+    use derive_builder::UninitializedFieldError;
+    use rand::{rngs::OsRng, RngCore};
+    use regex::Regex;
+    use reqwest::header;
+    use std::time::Duration;
+    use thiserror::Error;
 
-	impl VodafoneStation {
-		pub fn new(host: String) -> Self {
-			let mut headers = header::HeaderMap::new();
-			headers.insert("X-Requested-With", header::HeaderValue::from_static("XMLHttpRequest"));
-			headers.insert(header::REFERER,
-						   header::HeaderValue::from_str(&format!("http://{}/?overview", host))
-						   .expect("Host name is not valid ASCII!"));
-			headers.insert(header::ORIGIN,
-						   header::HeaderValue::from_str(&format!("http://{}", host))
-						   .expect("Host name is not valid ASCII!"));
+    #[derive(Debug, Error)]
+    pub enum StationError {
+        #[error("request error")]
+        Request(#[from] reqwest::Error),
+        #[error("could not parse data: {0}")]
+        Parse(String),
+    }
 
-			let client = Client::builder()
-				.default_headers(headers)
-				.user_agent("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0")
-				.cookie_store(true)
-				.timeout(Duration::from_secs(10))
-				.build().expect("Could not construct reqwest client.");
-			
-			VodafoneStation {
-				host: host,
-					
-			}
-		}	
-	}
+    #[derive(Debug, Builder)]
+    #[builder(build_fn(error = "StationError"))]
+    struct CryptoValues {
+        session_id: String,
+        nonce: String,
+        init_vector: String,
+        salt: String,
+    }
+
+    impl From<UninitializedFieldError> for StationError {
+        fn from(ufe: UninitializedFieldError) -> StationError {
+            StationError::Parse(ufe.to_string())
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[derive(Debug, Builder)]
+    struct LoginState {
+        csrf_nonce: String,
+        key: String,
+    }
+
+    #[derive(Debug)]
+    pub struct VodafoneStation {
+        host: String,
+        client: Client,
+        crypto: Option<CryptoValues>,
+        state: Option<LoginState>,
+    }
+
+    impl VodafoneStation {
+        pub fn new(host: &str) -> Self {
+            let mut headers = header::HeaderMap::new();
+            headers.insert(
+                "X-Requested-With",
+                header::HeaderValue::from_static("XMLHttpRequest"),
+            );
+            headers.insert(
+                header::REFERER,
+                header::HeaderValue::from_str(&format!("http://{}/?overview", host))
+                    .expect("Host name is not valid ASCII!"),
+            );
+            headers.insert(
+                header::ORIGIN,
+                header::HeaderValue::from_str(&format!("http://{}", host))
+                    .expect("Host name is not valid ASCII!"),
+            );
+
+            let client = Client::builder()
+                .default_headers(headers)
+                .user_agent("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0")
+                .cookie_store(true)
+                .timeout(Duration::from_secs(10))
+                .build()
+                .expect("Could not construct reqwest client.");
+
+            VodafoneStation {
+                host: host.to_owned(),
+                client,
+                crypto: None,
+                state: None,
+            }
+        }
+
+        pub async fn connect(&mut self) -> Result<(), StationError> {
+            let response = self.client.get("/").send().await?;
+            let text = response.text().await?;
+            self.init_crypto(&text)?;
+            Ok(())
+        }
+
+        fn init_crypto(&mut self, response: &str) -> Result<(), StationError> {
+            let re = Regex::new(
+                r"(?x)                                     # Ignore whitespace; allow line comments
+				(\W|^) [[:space:]]*                        # Start of Javascript statement
+				var [[:space:]]+ (?P<varName>[[:word:]]+)  # variable declaration
+				[[:space:]]* = [[:space:]]*                # Equals sign
+				'(?P<strval>[^']*)'                        # String value
+				[[:space:]]*;                              # End of statement
+				",
+            )
+            .unwrap();
+
+            let mut stbuild = CryptoValuesBuilder::default();
+
+            for caps in re.captures_iter(&response) {
+                match &caps["varName"] {
+                    "currentSessionId" => {
+                        stbuild.session_id(caps["strval"].to_owned());
+                    }
+                    "myIv" => {
+                        stbuild.init_vector(caps["strval"].to_owned());
+                    }
+                    "mySalt" => {
+                        stbuild.salt(caps["strval"].to_owned());
+                    }
+                    _ => (),
+                }
+            }
+
+            stbuild.nonce(OsRng.next_u32().to_string());
+
+            self.crypto = Some(stbuild.build()?);
+
+            Ok(())
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(test)]
+    mod tests {
+        use super::*;
+
+        #[test]
+        fn test_init_crypto() {
+            let mut station = VodafoneStation::new("INV");
+            let session_id = "cool_session";
+            let iv = "so_initialized";
+            let salt = "extremely_salty";
+            station
+                .init_crypto(
+                    format!(
+                        r"var currentSessionId = '{}';
+				          var myIv = '{}';
+				          var mySalt = '{}';
+				         ",
+                        &session_id, &iv, &salt
+                    )
+                    .as_str(),
+                )
+                .expect("Couldn't parse Javascript variable declarations.");
+
+            assert!(station.crypto.is_some());
+            let crypto = station.crypto.unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(crypto.session_id, session_id);
+            assert_eq!(crypto.init_vector, iv);
+            assert_eq!(crypto.salt, salt);
+            assert!(crypto.nonce.len() > 0);
+        }
+    }
 }