Post: Geohot's Firmware Decrypter!
12-31-2010, 08:54 AM #1
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The famous Geohot resurfaced today, to release a useful app called dePKG. The app is very useful for devs, that are planning to look into Sony's official firmware files. dePKG is a linux app, that will decrypt PKG files, that are within PS3UPDAT.PUP files (not to be confused with PSN PKG files).

This will allow devs to take a look at files such as CORE_OS_PACKAGE.pkg, from the convenience of their PC. Previously, the only way to take a look at these files, was via graf_chokolo's method, which utilized the PS3. Geohot's app is ready to be compiled and includes the necessary decryption keys.


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With this, developers can decrypt our own modified .PUP files and encrypt them with the newly found Sony Encryption Keys!

Just to let you know Winky Winky!
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01-01-2011, 11:27 AM #20
arie
Bounty hunter
this is really awesome. i cant wait for the first custom firmware that actually works on 3.55
01-01-2011, 11:36 AM #21
0xFa1z
Splicer
Originally posted by Ihatecompvir View Post
It is patchable, but this would require Sony make a whitelist for every possible PS3 thing they've ever signed, or make new hardware which stops this.

It works on every PS3 ever made though. Slim, 3.55, 3.40, 1.0, Fat, Japanese PS3, whatever.


This is not patchable, hardware exploits are never patachable. Remember, signing is hardware related. Plus, even if its patachable, we can always mod our own copy of the firmware and then sign it as if it was legitimate.
01-01-2011, 12:26 PM #22
bonbonbon
dead babies in a tree
Originally posted by TheLegislator View Post
This is not patchable, hardware exploits are never patachable. Remember, signing is hardware related. Plus, even if its patachable, we can always mod our own copy of the firmware and then sign it as if it was legitimate.


Yeah it's pretty much unpatchable
01-01-2011, 12:32 PM #23
ElitexWill
Do a barrel roll!
how can i sign an FTP server to my 3.55 retail console
01-01-2011, 12:35 PM #24
Originally posted by ElitexWill View Post
how can i sign an FTP server to my 3.55 retail console


Not as of yet. The only .pkg files we can encrypt yet are the .pkg files inside a .PUP, but we can't sign the .PUP yet.
01-01-2011, 12:37 PM #25
ElitexWill
Do a barrel roll!
Originally posted by Chupa View Post
Not as of yet. The only .pkg files we can encrypt yet are the .pkg files inside a .PUP, but we can't sign the .PUP yet.


do you know when we could sign a .PUP file yet
01-01-2011, 01:01 PM #26
Originally posted by ElitexWill View Post
do you know when we could sign a .PUP file yet


No idea, but it won't take long anymore.
01-01-2011, 08:53 PM #27
Originally posted by Ihatecompvir View Post
When will people realize that JB is now a HUGE WASTE OF MONEY?
This (the private keys, not the tool) allows you to do whatever you want on the PS3. Any code you want signed, say an FTP server, can be signed and will function a retail PS3 with 0 modifications. The PS3 will accept it as if it was from Sony.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the jailbreak at all.
And the PS3 still can't run unsigned code without a jailbreak, but now it doesn't need to run unsigned code.

Anyways about this tool, it doesn't work for Retail PKGs(so don't think that you are getting a challenge lobby with this). It works with Firmware PKGs, like CORE_OS_PACKAGE.PKG or BLUETOOTH_FIRMWARE.PKG
People can now begin looking more deeply on how the firmware functions.


What people don't get is where would you put this. They know nothing about signing/keys etc.

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Originally posted by bonbonbon View Post
Yeah it's pretty much unpatchable
If sonys smart enough they will think about making new hardware. Which they probably won't.
01-01-2011, 10:01 PM #28
SweatyMidgets
Swagger Swagger
I hope Sony has a ngu & reads this, they'll piss there pants lol

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