Post: 3.56+ Official Firmware [FAQ + Informational Post]
04-07-2013, 02:42 AM #1
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First of all, I don't think that there will be a new Official Firmware to Custom Firmware soon.

Reason: Every since Geohot (George Hotz) release the first ever CFW or Jailbreak for 3.55 Sony jumped the gun and thought that this was a very bad thing. Geohot almost got sued, but they shook hands and Geohot said he will never touch the PS3 EVER again. According to the DMCA rules (Or Your Device Limits), you cannot jailbreak a PS3. Alot of other PS3 developers worked on exploiting the PS3's security, Geohot just released the first firmware. Without Fail0verflow, and other developers, that wouldn't be possible.

Sony found a way to "patch" jailbreaking the PS3 by using a algorithm called ECDSA (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm) that will protect these codes called "Private keys". Sony has used the ECDSA before CFW's but they failed to create a new K as used in this algorithm, You must login or register to view this content.. If you want more information on ECDSA go to You must login or register to view this content.!


Originally posted by another user

In December 2010, a group calling itself fail0verflow announced recovery of the ECDSA private key used by Sony to sign software for the PlayStation 3 game console. However, this attack can be considered invalid against ECDSA because it is Sony who failed to implement valid signature(s). That is, the attack was made possible because Sony failed to generate a new random k for each signature


Also in 3.60, instead of hardware booting up the keys like this:

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Then they took out metldr (NOR PS3's they did, other PS3's its still active) (Met Loader) and replaced it with bootldr (Boot Loader). They also made Lv0 (Level 0) load the keys like this:

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This makes it much harder to retrieve the keys because we have to mess with another key to find another, instead of hardware.

Originally posted by another user
Lv0 has now been changed, LV0 now appears to encapsulate all of the Loaders (appldr, isoldr, lv1ldr, lv2ldr). Now in order to break the chain of trust we need to be able to decrypt/exploit LV0 (or bootldr which loads LV0) -> done! See You must login or register to view this content.!


Also in 3.56 they added these 2 files to the root of the Playstation Update Package [PUP] spkg_hdr.tar and ps3swu2.self.

I am very afraid that the Ps4 will have ECDSA too and ECDSA will still be enabled on PS3 when PS4 gets released.

Sony will not leave their eye off of the PS3 for 1 moment so don't start doing stupid shit when the PS4 is released!

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04-07-2013, 05:25 PM #11
Originally posted by WOLF View Post
You're the one that needs to do research. You have to install that cfw on 3.55. It can't be installed on 3.56 or higher just like any cfw. There are 4.30 and 4.40 cfws now.


Originally posted by Mythusala View Post
actually there is a 3.56 cfw made by demonhades if you really knew what you were talking about you would know this please do some more research before you post stuuf like this. Its very misleading thanks....


Actually, the 3.56 CFW has to be installed on 3.55, so it uses a spoofer, that means that it IS a 3.55 CFW using 3.56 certificates to go online.

WOLF, just like I explained above, there NOT 4.30, or 4.40 CFW's. They use a spoofer or QA flag.
04-07-2013, 11:00 PM #12
Mythusala
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04-07-2013, 11:12 PM #13
riggstq
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Originally posted by Retired
Actually, the 3.56 CFW has to be installed on 3.55, so it uses a spoofer, that means that it IS a 3.55 CFW using 3.56 certificates to go online.

WOLF, just like I explained above, there NOT 4.30, or 4.40 CFW's. They use a spoofer or QA flag.


worst thing ive ever heard from a supposed "retired ps3 dev" i mean how can you explain the fact that they run games without patching? the fact that they majority nowadays dont even have spoofers xD funny guy i think we all got lucky you retired before you caused damage lool


EDIT: you can thumbs down me all you like idc your just mad your wrong and think your a supposed ps3 dev LOL can i ask what did you actually develop other than copy n paste threads?

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