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Old 07-30-2012   #233
sandungas
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Personally... i think the System is a custom firmware (operative system in pc's... or... ps3 system firmware that is what sony uses)

The obvious question is how they are going to create us the "needed" to register to this system ?
Because like other of you said.... if there is only 1 user registered... and this user releases the EBOOT.BIN's publically... then there is no need to anyone to register in this "system"... and this is a nonsense, it cant be so simple
So the "solution" is to "bind" the EBOOT.BIN's to the user.... and for this is needed this custom firmware

But the only way to do this is signing (call it sign, bind, pair, or what you like) the EBOOT.BIN's with "per-user" keys (call it IDPS, PSID, serial number, or any other hardware identifyer)
I have no idea if this is possible, but is the only way i see for all this "system" to work


And btw... there is a way to make this "system" licit (or in other words... to avoid law problems)
Imagine a "server utility" that retrieves the EBOOT.BIN from the user... then decrypts it and resign, and returns the file to the user
Nice ?
Well, is even nicer is you store a database of the hashes of all the eboot's that the users sends (and a converted copy of each different eboot)
This way the "server tool" doesnt needs to download all the eboots everytime.... only the new ones... and also its only needed to make the conversion only 1 time for every eboot (after the resigning, the "result" eboot is sended to the user, and stored in the database for the next users)
Profit !

But where is the money ?... i still missing pieces of the puzzle
And no, i dont think this "system" (or resigning service) will need a payment (they clearly said the "magic" word FREE)


Edit, forgot this:
System of a down - **** The System (Lyrics) - YouTube

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