Just an FYI. For those running DVB-PCI just get the latest vplug, European members will appreciate this more. As there are only a handful of channels using this encryption method available in NA.
I also wanted to post this as one of our resident compulsive posters tried to challenge me on what I know about encryption systems.
So lets separate the boys from the men here can anyone tell me why this is significant news?
Oh this is not an attack on Nalin, more a challenge if you will
Also I clearly said that its pretty much irrelevant to NA users, and more for Europeans....but there is something very important about Viaccess being cracked and anyone who has in depth understanding of encryption will be able to tell you what that is... as I said this is VERY big news.
Plymouth: nobody cracked 256 bit encryption on USB drives 3 days ago, now the Viaaccess crack. I think we should expect a hat trick from him. I wonder if he is really hinting that he will cracking N3 very soon? He is the grandson of Marian Rejewski, who broke the enigma code during WW2.
( c&p ) There are fresh rumors around on German boards, that Viaccess 3.0, which uses a chip similar to the P4, has been recently compromised and there is an emulation for FTA.
The word is around the forums that this is a fake announcement, they only want to sell Venton HD200S boxes.
Cheap Trick you are actually right and wrong, congratulations even with a C/P you were able to do what Nalin couldn't. This member prefers to just bash once anyone puts them into a corner so going forward I will just ignore their posts, as they clearly have no really relevant information to put forward.
Having said that its not a rumour. I am not sure about the Venton boxes I have never owned a STB, but for DVB-PCI cards you can view Viaccess 2.6 with vplug. This plugin was once used for N2.
The big news is that the P4 system as well as Viaccess2 system both use an SLE66 processor. Which means this could be the beginning steps to a real P4 hack...only time will tell because the GX28 uses a 650 nm process, while the P4 uses a 250 nm process. This would make the P4 alot harder to probe, and even if engineers were able to microprobe it, it would be much more difficult to do any really invasive attacks like optical glitching without doing damage to the hardware.
One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one chip makes for a system.....
this Viaccess stint goes same place as a dead end road does......
One chip doesn't make the system but being able to break into a chip so similar to the one being used in the P4 is definately a good thing. Its the first step to understanding what is really behind P4. You could think of it this way one alternator doesn;t make an engine.... but understanding what an alternator does, and how it works you could probably figure out how an alternator on another car works....particularily if that car is from the same manufacturer.
Cracking viaaccess is a proof of concept - the concept being that hardware encryption is hackable. It's just a matter of whose going to step up to the plate to provide $$ for cracking another access system, and, who is willing to fight potential court battles.
I wouldn't say that it's a dead-end. It's nice to hear about a bit of blackhat headway being made wrt to related technology.
Breaking 256 bit encryption? Hacking a firmware firewall on a smart card? ...forget it. they are stroking you.
Even NDS didn't give Dave the code. Instead, they gave them machines to test the cards functionality so no one could point fingers at each other in how it got leaked again...and leaking is the only practical way a fix could prevail in my view.
I can not see enormous talent and energies using a multi-million dollar lab just to reverse engineer gate structures to hack TV either. The doctors there would have kittens.
They closed the largest and most popular accessibility at each era (Dave P3's, Pansit, NFision, KBux) successfully while suing anyone anyone in their path to protect their treasure chest. Peanuts for the difference it makes with a smaller viewing audience for their advertisers. In this economy people could use a break who couldn't or wouldn't pay for the waves traveling through their bodies and bombarding their backyards. They have far from destitute pals in big business or government to throw the poor in jail.
It's a lame hobby now, the bigger players like NFusion and KBox taken down with no word from new fixes or servers, only more obscure boxes working for now and aI stress for now. If anything becomes popular, timber she goes.
Fixes are increasingly shorter lived too as time progresses in this interesting hobby.
If some one claims the new chips were hacked, they are lying, unless it was leaked (the only way) which is highly unlikely and hence rumor in my view. Even bank cards have migrated to smartcard technology for security sake.
Viaccess is currently used by a large number of providers. These include;
ART Boxer TV Access NTV Televisa Networks Canal Satellite France ETTV TBLTV Home2US YouSee Croatian Radiotelevision RTV Slovenija SRG SSR idée suisse Sveriges Television (SVT World)
nobody, can you please post a link where I can get some files and setup info for dvb-pci. You see, I got a twinhan pci card that I would like to setup for it. I'll test and let you all know how real this thing is.
BTW, what sat uses this encryption and what size dish is needed to pick it up.
1) You need the latest vplug with all patches etc. 2) Edit your vPlug.ini file, just open it in notepad and find ProviderID_IgnoreList line, then remove "023B00," from it. 3) Overwrite your vModules\Viaccess.mdl file with the new Viaccess.mdl file from the zip I posted earlier.
The only thing you might be able to hit here. Is AMC 4 there are a few channels on there using this system.... I hope you speak korean :D You will also need a decent sized dish depending on your location, and universal lnb or linear.
Also invest in a skystar... I once had a twinhan they are just not very good, and man do they get hot.
