So what will Sony do to fix the exploit?

[snakenobi]

thismeintiel said:

snakenobi said:

thismeintiel said:

I was under the impression every PS3 had its own unique set of "keys."  Is that wrong, and these keys are the same ones in every PS3?

yes the keys are different

 

there are public keys(same all over) and private keys(unique to each console

but the hackers have public keys and know how to get private keys.

 

sony can still fix it if they change all the private keys by firmware update

Thanks.  I knew I remembered reading the PS3 had something unique, securtiy-wise, for each individual system.  So does that mean that every single person who wanted a modded PS3 would have to go through the same initial procedure that the hackers did to find out their systems keys?  And does that mean there might not even be a guarantee that a homebrew app would even work across all PS3's if it was built using an individual console?  Or would that only require the public keys? 

And don't worry, I don't expect you to know all of those answers. 

the application to calculate your own private keys is already out

also they could build a custom firmware which could do it for you

 

the main mistake was the way the private keys are calculated by the PS3.The PS3 uses a formula that uses random numbers to get the key

you won't believe it but PS3 uses the same random number all the time so its easy and problem solved

 

if sony can change the private keys by new firmware and also change the calculating mathod with random numbers(really random numbers not just same random as now) then they could have a chance