Hacking the Xbox

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270 Molex 76 Moore’s Law 5 Mosis 5 Multimedia and Communications Processor 45 musical composition (MC) 177 N NEC 3 Needham, Roger 111, 143 Newark Electronics. See vendors nForce 121 nForce IGP 41 Nintendo 2, 3, 93 Nintendo Gamecube 16, 50 Flipper chip 50 RAM 51 No Electronic Theft Act (NET Act) 190 Northbridge 121. See also Xbox Architecture Northbridge-Southbridge 119 NSA 109 nuclear annihilation 5 numbnut 194. See also Green, Andy NV2A 40 nVidia 40, 45, 98, 121 O OEM (original equipment manufacturer) 74 opcodes, CPU 42 OpenXDK 171 oscilloscope 19 P P4M266 ProSavageDDR 50 Palladium 13, 201, 202–203 passive components 35 patchers 155 Patent 178–179 PCI 141, 151 Pentium 94, 98, 99, 119 Perez, David 141 Playstation 101 Playstation2 3, 102, 171 pogo pin 39, 147, 153 power supply, replacing Xbox's 73–87 program counter (PC). See instruction pointer (IP) Protel 20 public key ciphers 107 R Radio Shack 12, 18, 20 RAM 46, 51 RC-4 95, 113, 133, 139 Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) 186 related key weakness 111 relative addressing 153 reset vector 94, 97, 155 resistors 37 reverse Engineering 31–38, 173, 175, 180–183 circuit board, reading 32 components 36 part number lookup 39 Pattern Matching 48 test points 39 RIAA 187 right to tinker 93 Rivest, Ronald L. 109, 114 Robertson, Michael 166 Robinson, Aaron 172 RSA 114, 143, 145, 166 RSA algorithm 115 RSA Data Security, Inc. 115 rubber-hose cryptography 116 S Samsung 120 Schneier, Bruce 105, 111, 143 SDMI 187 SDMI Challenge 186 secret boot code 140 secret boot ROM 141 secure boot ROM 145 Secure Digital Music Initiative 186 security 42, 101–104 through obscurity 52 proprietary interfaces 52
security bits 15 Sega 3 Sega Enterprises Ltd. v. Accolade, Inc. 182 SHA-1 143, 145, 167 SHA-1 Hash 109 Shamir, Adi 113, 114, 147 Shapiro, Jonathan 200 signal energy, termination and 37 SignAssure 116 SiliconIce 172, 194. See also Johnson, Dan silkscreen 32 Sklyarov, Dmitry 190 Slashdot 101 SMC 97. See also Xbox Architecture SN65LVDS386 125 snarf a ROM 90 soldermask 32 Sony 3, 93, 101 sound recording (SR) 177 Sourceforge 165–166 Southbridge 121, 152. See also Xbox Architecture Springer-Verlag 137 SST 49LF020 155 SST 49LF020A 155 static electricity 21 Steil, Michael 140 STMicroelectronics 38 StrongArm 123 Super I/O 152 Surreptitious BIOS (SPIOS) 204 Surreptitious RAM (SPAM) 204 symmetric ciphers 105 System Management Controller. See Xbox architecture T tagged memory 200 tap board 125, 127 TCPA 13, 201, 202–203 TEA 145 Team Utopia 3 termination resistors 37 test points 39 Texas Instruments 125 third hand soldering tool 70 TIA/EIA-644 123 Tien, Lee 7, 134, 173, 174 time-domain reflectometers (TDRs) 206 Tiny Encryption Algorithm (TEA) 143 tools 15 desoldering braids 18 Digital multimeters (DMMs) 18 logic analyzer 19 oscilloscope 19 security bits 15 soldering iron 17 torx 16 TPM (Trusted Platform Module) 202 trade secrets 179 trusted computing 197 Trustworthy Computing 1 trykeys 133 TSMC 45 TSOP 90 U unified memory architecture (UMA). See Xbox architecture Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCI) 189 USB adapter, how to build 67–71 U.S. Bill of Rights 155 V v1.2 Xbox 74 Vault Corp. v. Quaid Software Ltd. 188 vendors Data Rescue Corporation 95 Digi-Key 18, 31, 76 Ersa 92 Jameco 18, 31, 70, 76, 92 MCM Electronics16 Needham’s Electronics 92 Newark Electronics 31 Radio Shack 18, 20 Xytronic 92 Via Technology 50 Virtex-E FPGA 123 271
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