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(lol it helped me understand)


Okay; definitive bottom line here.

1) If you have to ask what these keys mean and how to use them, they're useless to you. Consider this the magic numbers the insanely smart people need to make everything happen. You can't use them for anything, because if you had the knowledge to use them, you'd know what they were. They (these and the others) are encryption keys to be used to sign programs/updates/system files as legitimate, or to decrypt signed legitimate files, to modify them, study them, etc.

2) This should mean that in time, homebrew applications will be able to be 'signed' as valid, but things like Gaia Manager and other apps will still require modified firmware - for the most part. Most game launchers require access to Syscalls that don't exist in Sony firmwares. So no, your unhacked console will not run a manager - yet. They may incorporate a way to use Sony syscalls, until then it won't help at all.

3) NO, this will not lead to "jailbreaking" your PS3 as you know it. Modern jailbreaks rely upon vulnerabilities within the official firmware, those USB devices you're using now take advantage of those vulnerabilities and patch system memory to do "bad" things, AKA run unsigned code.

4) This WILL result in custom firmware. it will not require a USB device to jailbreak. It'll require a USB pendrive, or DVD, or other means of uploading a "system update" from one of the people mentioned in note 1. This update will flash its own firmware to your PS3 as if it was a Sony update, and from there you'll boot - from powered off to XMB like it was fresh out of the box, with no extra tools - but ready and waiting to do your bidding, uninhibited by Sony's desires or influences. 3.41 or 3.15 will be first, but in time, now that they can decode it, 3.50, 3.55, and likely any future firmware for the PS3 will be ported. So yes, eventually, you will be able to play GT5 and use the Move and watch your 3D Bluray movies, on your "unlocked" PS3....I say "unlocked" because "jailbroken" still implies a USB dongle hack in my mind.

AKA - for now, you wait. Those keys are for the people who made them, and the people who were already trying to get them. If you didn't know you needed them, or don't know what they mean, you wait for something that says "install this to unlock your system" from a REPUTABLE SOURCE.


This was a copy and paste from one of my threads by 020king. (Witch he copied and pasted to my thread)

Great. I love when someone tells others to look out for reputable sources when, he who speaks the blizzard, is a noone. :\

Nvermind lol misunderstanding lol

idk who this kid is, but hes right for the most part, he didnt go in to much details though. And yes, i would use "unlock" instead of "jailbreak" to

so basically we should, in theory, be able to "downgrade" to a custom firmware made by one of those before mentioned hackers. and still be able to do things like use PSN and everything like that?...and if the use of "signed" homebrews and the like are not enough, we could jailbreak from say 3.41 and use a backup manager without losing the use of our psn, or what have you...

please correct me if im wrong, this is just the assumption that i made

signed or not 3.41 wont install unless it is modded, in which case if its signed then yes you could update to 3.41 from a higher version... but why?

Thanks for helping people understand them better.

tl;dr version?

if that were true (going to a modded 3.41 from 3.55 or w/e) we would be able to downgrade completely. you would just have to drop your fw to the modded 3.41, then install whatever firmware you wanted.