143w ago - Earlier today we reported that the PSJailBreak PS3 modchip is
easily dumped and that
PSJailBreak clones are already on the way, and now some PlayStation 3 developers are working on reverse-engineering the costly USB device in hopes to make a less expensive or free scene alternative available soon.
Tsujin,
knightsolidus and
bushing have made brief attempts at determining the PSJailBreak IC chip and pin-out, while
Neme6 of Logic-Sunrise (linked above) has also shared his findings thus far.
More pictures are available
HERE for those curious, and to quote, roughly translated on the linked pics:
"Many teams are studying the JSP to try to clone a low cost and how it works. From the photos released, I tried to determine the electronic design of PSJ.
Here is the result of my work and my observations. Feel free to post if can lighten the shadows that remain.
First ICP is probably the type PIC18F declination 4455, 4550, 4458, 4553. The size of the EEPROM is 256 bytes."
Comments:
Components (red dots)
A: Resistor, 1K
B: LED
C: LED
D: Resistor, 1k
E:?? Resistor ?? Resistor??
F:?? Capacitor ?? Capacitor??
G:?? Resistor ?? Resistor??
H:?? Resistor ; 1K (Pullup resistor) ?? Resistor, 1K (pullup resistor)??
I:?? Capacitor ?? Capacitor??
J: Capacitor, 100nF (Decoupling cap)
. . : XTAL
• The blue dots A, B and D control the LEDs.
• The blue dots ¤ K, L, G and H are for power (Vdd, Vss).
• I suppose the blue dots M, I and J are to program the PIC (ICPGC, ICPGD, / MCLR).
• Points E and F are blue and OSC1 OSC2. They should be connected to XTAL (orange dots A and B).
• And the GND (file alpha) through two 22pF capacity.
• The orange dot ¤ F, there should be a link with USB.D-(I can not quite see from the photos).
• Maybe the orange dot at point C is connected blue M (ICPGC).
• Maybe the orange dot C is connected to pin 33 (/ ICRST).
• I guess the orange dot E is connected to a via (through hole) noted alpha.
I'm with 10 seconds of Google searching you will find a torrent you can download....
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Probably not... If Sony made their homework, then there's probably some kind of cryptographic challenge/response authentication which the PS Jailbreak stick is emulating using keys dumped out of a JIG stick.
Typically the PS3 would send encrypted random data to the stick and wait for the stick to respond to that challenge with the decrypted random data.
So sniffing won't help at all, since the response would be different at each challenge. Sorry to rain on your parade...
IMHO there are three possibilities why there are clones coming up:
• The dump of the jigstick has been sold to different parties by the original hacker.
• The PS Jailbreak Team is selling the lower priced clones because in some parts of the world, 140$ or 110 Euro is way too much for the average.
• The PS Jailbreak stick has been dumped in a specialized lab and some other team wants to jump on the bandwagon.
Sony is already starting to ban the psn's of jailbroken ps3s.