Interesting discussion over at xbox-scene.com

Well, I've been reading this for about 30 mins now, and I'm hooked. It's about 2048 bit RSA Encryption, a 617 digit prime number...oh boy, you guys gotta read this.

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If any of you have ANY information, please post it.



By the way, we have the product number

2074011932725872376027602350906301713845599360627488352673195511324110900735 4362374128996096291046353572306742110305456946824862203867115042369878729703 4757651122801674981890464377946029661688124194233651969796694319295889511268 0464874302938783366603176573433716594963473137559247167029424618087781510481 2674626967450097045005117546657068700545263064105024888769118032059917845867 6530404194040036845598825091953986309228240504053796205135896999939802056942 6697323609577215347638826741847653366351274624331031785386194643005307289050 2949319703765023792161144942611323629444409600173894963797156859916567288947 565058003

I think this topic would be against the rulez

It would? Oh, sorry.

Something that would be this insanely hard to do, i thought could be posted here. Oh well..

It is because you're trying to create a way to basically play burned games without a mod chip which is illegal. I don't see the harm in discussing it though, as its near impossible to do.

Discussing math is one thing. Discussing burned games is quite another. How you could seperate the two at this point is beyond me but for crying out loud, the whole thing is designed to take many years of brute force. And what I see just on the first page of that is not even a decent shortcut for brute force.

kayson said:

It is because you're trying to create a way to basically play burned games without a mod chip which is illegal. I don't see the harm in discussing it though, as its near impossible to do.

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I don't think it's illegal. I don't even own a console and I find this pretty intriguing. It's not like I'd use this information, but I find it really interesting how others learn to knock down walls.

I hate Math lol

If that number is public knowledge I think its legal, but then again it is cracking....

Developers in the emulation scene will continue to reverse engineer a console untill they 'crack' it. This article isn't specifically about emulation, but it's basically the same idea.

It takes them a long, long time in most cases, but they almost always succeed eventually. We see most video game consoles emulated to some playeable degree on our PCs by the time the next generation of console hits the market.

Illegal or otherwise, the amount of effort and programming skill involved is quite fascinating.


EDIT: These XBOX guys should contact the Prime95 guys if they're still looking for a list of all the Prime numbers. I'm pretty sure they'd have a list somewhere.

lol...good idea...
and btw that stuff is crazy!.

read carefully and while what they are attempting is legally dodgy they are attempting to break a copy protection system, they are talking about it in relation to xbox linux and xbox media center, not playing burned games (other than tux racer).