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[FYI] MIT grad student shows how to read Xbox security key
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- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 16:18:21 +0200
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/25568.html
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MIT grad student shows how to read Xbox security key
By John Lettice
Posted: 04/06/2002 at 11:20 GMT
An MIT graduate student has successfully dismantled Xbox's security
system and published (after what appears to have been some discussion
with Microsoft and EFF lawyers) the results. Bottom line - Xbox
security relies on a "chain of trust" built on a "seed of trust" key
that is included in a physically secure, secret boot block and which
is identical in all shipped hardware.
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See also
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hag-04.06.02-000/
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