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MIT grad student shows how to read Xbox security key

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/25568.html

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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