PS3 Developer KaKaRoTo has given a status update regarding his work on getting homebrew running on 3.56 PS3′s, there are quite a few revelations, none of which are a shock, so here is a quote from KaKaRoTo’s blog:
Here’s a “quick” status update on the 4.00 HEN (Homebrew ENabler) for PS3.
Following my clarifications from almost 2 months ago here, there has been a lot of progress. We have not been slacking off, we’re a group of about 10 developers working together for the last 2 months, for sometimes 15 hours everyday in order to bring back homebrew support to the latest version of the PS3.
There are three major parts to the HEN, first, getting the packages to install on the PS3, that part is done, completed, tested, debugged, etc.. the second part is to get the apps to run, that one still has major issues… the last part is something I will not discuss for now (it’s a surprise) but it’s about 60% to 70% done (and it has nothing to do with peek&poke and has nothing to do with backup managers or anything like that. This is and will stay a piracy-free solution for the PS3).
Now, running apps is the biggest challenge that we’ve been working on for the past 2 months. As some of you know, if you’ve been following me on Twitter, we originally had hoped for Mathieulh to give us the “npdrm hash algorithm” that was necessary to run the apps, but he was reluctant, he kept doing his usual whore so people would kiss his feet (or something else) so he’d feel good about himself. But in the end, he said that he refuses to give us the needed “npdrm hash algorithm” to make it work… So what I initially thought would be “this will be released next week” ended up taking a lot more time than expected, and we’re still nowhere near ready to make it work.
Mathieulh kept tossing his usual “riddles” which he thinks are “very helpful for those who have a brain”, and which pisses off anyone who actually does… so he told us that the solution to all our problems was to look in appldr of the 3.56 firmware.. and that it was something lv1 was sending appldr which made the “hash check” verified or not… so we spent one month and a lot of sweat and after killing a few of our brain cells out of exhaustion, we finally concluded that it was all bullshit. After one month of reading assembly code and checking and double-checking our results, we finally were able to confirm that that hash algorithm was NOT in the 3.56 firmware like he told us (at all).
He said that it was an AES OMAC hash, but after tracking all the uses of the OMAC functions in appldr, we found that it was not used for the “hash”… he then said “oh, I meant HMAC“, so we do that again and again come up with the same conclusion, then we’re sure it’s not in appldr, and then he says “ah no, it’s in lv1“.. have a look for yourself to what he decided to write : http://www.ps3devwiki.com/index.php?title=Talk:KaKaRoTo_Kind_of_%C2%B4Jailbreak%C2%B4
That happened after the huge twitter fight I had with him for being his usual arrogant ass and claiming that he “shared” something (For your information, the code that he shared was not his own, I have proof of that too (can’t show you the proof because even if I don’t respect him, I gave him my word to not share what he gave me, and I respect my word) since he forgot to remove the name of the original developer from one of the files… also it was completely useless and was not used at all, just made me waste a day reading the crappy undocumented code. So why is he still trying to force his “advice” through these riddles even after we had that fight? Well to sabotage us and make us lose all those months of hard work!
This being quite a big story, we had several people submit it, so thanks to all those that posted this news, all your articles have been merged into the one thread.
01-19-2012
06:26 AM
Awsome update, but cant we just shoot Mathieulh or something?/
what a ass
01-19-2012
06:46 AM
here we go again...
01-19-2012
06:51 AM
oh man so now its official
**** Mathieulh and SOPA
n it looks like Mathieulh is ruuning SCFWA (STOP Custom Firmware ACT)
01-19-2012
06:57 AM
So Mathieulh knows **** all about hacking. Who would have guessed?
01-19-2012
07:00 AM
01-19-2012
07:14 AM
If Math is BSing I now have no issues with anyone coming out with comments e.g. calling him a p***k.
Seriously, the "hints" were annoying but understandable (see Geohot and Graf) but if he's just been BSing then he deserves what he gets.
01-19-2012
07:23 AM
Let the math bash fest begin! :P
01-19-2012
07:48 AM
Please don't bother as I am sure people like that enjoy any attention, good or bad. So let's just stay on topic.
Thanks for the update
Quazza
01-19-2012
07:48 AM
like i said before, and ill say it again. Math is like what obesity is to Africa, irrelevant to the ps3 scene.
01-19-2012
08:17 AM
awesome update!
01-19-2012
08:18 AM
Sorry but I have to do this...
01-19-2012
08:25 AM
jo jo jo!
kakaroto just confirmed what we all knew already: mathieulh is a bag full of sh*t.
Kakaroto, yes you can! yes you can! yes you can!
01-19-2012
08:36 AM
[MENTION=128365]kakaroto[/MENTION], I'm sorry you lost so much of your valuable time poking dead things around because you trusted that **** in the first place...
01-19-2012
10:12 AM
KaKaRoTo also is a drama.....
ps3 scene drama for almost a year now....
01-19-2012
10:46 AM
I wouldnt call it all wasted time, at least they know what not to spend more time on.
01-19-2012
11:12 AM
i hope that the new cfw to be finished and see light soon
01-19-2012
11:56 AM
This is pretty good news overall. I mean, it shows there are still some people in the scene working and exploring options. I suppose we shall wait and see. Personally I could care less about a 4.0 CFW at this point, I want to see the intrigue unfold as Mathieulh responds
01-19-2012
03:38 PM
i stopped reading once it said no peek and poke
01-19-2012
06:26 PM
I think its more than safe to say that we should all just ignore ANYTHING Mathieulh has to say, unless its an actual ready to go pup file of cfw 4.0 I wouldn't even so much as give him the credit of reposting anything he says.
01-19-2012
09:31 PM
what season are we in again?
01-19-2012
09:46 PM
so glad kakarots notices how much of an ******* math is!!!
hopefully once this release happens, it'll bring in even more devs so math will be a thing of the past and can go whore somewhere else =_=
01-22-2012
03:04 PM
"""(cant show you the proof because even if I dont respect him, I gave him my word to not share what he gave me, and I respect my word)"""
Hmm... Ok, thanks. Now i know that the jailbreak promise was fake since te very beggining.
1 - Kakarotos announce a jailbreak, and go on a vacancy right after the announcement.
2 - Kakarotos was mad at people who ask him for updates, but then, why the hell he announced this so early?
3 - He said that progress was made, updating that wiki, but according to this post, he was STUCK while he was reporting progress.
4 - Mathieul sound as a excuse. "cant show you the proof because even if I dont respect him, I gave him my word to not share what he gave me, and I respect my word" Oh, sure, you have proof, but can't show. These devs alway have things that they never show.
01-24-2012
10:54 PM
i just sold my PS3. im tired of this scene.. see you at the next scene..
01-27-2012
11:15 PM
Finnaly, i swapped my ps3 for a xbox 360. Now i'm on the good scene. Good luck with your devs and their egos. Bye
01-28-2012
01:42 AM
i cant help but wonder why sony, which headquarters are far away in japan, is able to file a lawsuit and break the scene
while the xbox, which is practically made in America, cannot do the same?
so far as i can see is that, there arent a greater number of devs here then there are in the 360 scene
meaning... we're pretty much screwed for another 6 months when sony makes an update "if this jailbreak actually releases"