The software encryption key of 'PlayStation Classic' which can add a game freely by hacking was stored in the terminal itself


The game machine " PlayStation Classic " containing 20 titles of the original PlayStation has become a hacker 's "cool toy" right after release and it is now in a situation where you can play games already saved in USB memory freely. Under such circumstances, it is clear that the cause of hacking is "because the key itself for decrypting cipher itself was stored in the terminal".

Cryptography failure leads to easy hacking for PlayStation Classic | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/12/cryptography-failure-leads-to-easy-hacking-for-playstation-classic/

Hacking work of PlayStation Classic took place between hackers all over the world right after launch, and it was discovered that it is an amazing specification such as a menu screen appears just by pressing "Esc key" of the connected USB keyboard It was.

How to display the emulation menu hidden in the mini play state "PlayStation Classic" - GIGAZINE



In addition, we noticed that the open source "PCSX ReARMed" was used instead of Sony proprietary software for the PlayStation Classic emulator, and cheers came out among hackers. Hackers worked on hacking work with joy and a way to add other games as much as they were developed.

The way to hack PlayStation Classic and play games saved in USB memory with PlayStation Classic is explained in the following movie.

Add your own Game to the PlayStation Classic using a USB Flash Drive: Spiderman - YouTube


According to Mr. Yifan's tweet who carried out the hacking work, it turned out "Private key important for hacking was stored in the terminal".


In addition, we have also noticed that we do not check the Signature for highly confidential boot ROM code that is read at system startup.



Thanks to security aspect being monkey, software "gpghax" loading game from USB memory with EU version PlayStation Classic has appeared, and "gpghax" for Japanese version also appeared after a while. Both of these software are designed to add game titles freely without making any changes to the software of PlayStation Classic itself.

GitHub - justMaku / gpghax
https://github.com/justMaku/gpghax

GitHub - ElMassman / gpghax: Fork of gpghax for Japanese PlayStation Classic
https://github.com/ElMassman/gpghax

Although it is shocking that PlayStation Classic was hardly loaded with security functions, Ars Technica points out that PlayStation Classic's hacking festival might be a prelude to hack ARM-based systems.

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