| Egann said: Yes, because the PS3's private key totally didn't get hacked and publicly released. And that had the added advantage of separating the public key from the private one. Encryption is great to keep individual packets of information secure when you've got a server to handle the encrypyion. It's not so good when the encryption is done inside a little memory chip and it's a server farm doing the cracking. I would totally love to see somebody make a beowulf cluster of raspberry pis to crack the Vita card, though. Or, even worse, use the PS3's private key to side-load Linux on it, then set up a beowulf cluster of PS3's. Irony is served. |
That volume of effort would not be worth doing on the Vita. PS3 was a different beast and was motivated by an action on Sony's part by removing OtherOS.
They have 4 major factors preventing such an effort.
1. Validity. It's just not worth doing at this point. If Vita grows much larger, then it starts to become more viable.
2. Physical size. It would be difficult to create a customized adapter card with the right dimensions.
3. Encryption. It could be cracked tomorrow or it might never get cracked. Not a factor worth banking on until it's actualy happened.
4. Chips. You'd need to create a customized adapter with a cracked encryption chip built in.
Not exactly a cheap venture at this point. And the adapters themselves would likely cost quite a lot too.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
