[SurroundSound] Re: update on sacd cracking

THX VF. Any bit of new info is always welcomed.

On máj. 10, 12:35, VF <vf.surro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> latest monthly update on SACD cracking [ripping]: from the ps guy, our
> SACD saviour:
>
> "Let me tell you guys where I am right now.. The current status is
> that I can finally raw read SACDs from GameOS. Surprisingly this was
> the biggest hurdle until now (got this working last week!!), it turned
> out I had to re-authenticate the drive in order to allow disc access.
> But these functions (two lines of code) were hidden very deep in the
> shell and seemed completely unrelated to disc access :(, but I found
> them :)..
>
> So reading and writing is finally working:http://code.google.com/p/sacd-ripper/source/browse/trunk/sacdread/sac...
>
> Another thing I've been reversing is the communication with the
> SacModule (the module that authenticates the drive in order to decrypt
> the SACD, and also deals with the decryption of the revocation table
> (if the disc has one)):http://code.google.com/p/sacd-ripper/source/browse/trunk/sacdread/sac...
>
> So at this point authentication seems to work, and the decryption
> process starts without errors. But... the "decrypted" data is wrong
> (problem occured yesterday, so still, very fresh..). In other words
> the drive is "decrypting" the data, but the key that the drive is
> using seems to be wrong.. so that's going to be the last hurdle.. and
> I hope that's not going to take the amount of time that I had to spend
> on drive authentication..!"
>
> looking promising. hope you are all going well in your lives.
>
> Also...once the cracking is completed, then the SACD-R side, of
> getting all our players' firmware modified to play SACD-Rs, should
> follow suit. I know who will help with all that, he's part of this old
> 'team' that I always referred to.
> VF
>
> On Apr 2, 5:22 pm, grill <gr...@index.hu> wrote:
>
>
>
> > THX for the info.
>
> > On ápr. 2, 15:57, VF <vf.surro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > i'm not invovled anymore, as you all know, but I'm reporting an
> > > update. i emailed the ps3 guy to get an update and he said:
>
> > > "You won't believe it, but I'm still working on it.. yes, progress is
> > > really slow but I'm getting there! The PS3 doesn't contain anySACD
> > > decryption though, it's only handshaking with the BD drive that I'm
> > > reversing.
>
> > > "btw. all the time is not put into reversing the code itself. But
> > > hacking my way through the PS3 authentication (I simply cannot call my
> > > reversed functions), which is more then a pain in the ass!"
>
> > > see you in a month, if I have to report another update lol.- Idézett szöveg elrejtése -
>
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