Notice to SONY PS3 Devs

Posted by JD 01/08/2011 at 12:50

Notice to in-house SONY PS3 Developers
getRandomNumber()
is not how real programmers create a random number to seed public/private key encryption.

If you haven’t heard, the PS3 private key has been cracked. . There may not be anything that SONY can do to solve this, but there may be. It is too early to tell and perhaps they thought ahead like the Blu-Ray guys did and have a way to invalidate the key stored on the device and replace it with something new. It is unknown what effect that will have on existing games, settings, and networking. This could be impossible to solve. OTOH, how many customers will really do this in the real world? Less than 1% I’d guess. What I’d be worried about are BluRay and Netflix perfect copies of content getting out.

BTW, I do not own a PS3. I’m still rockin’ a PS2 from about 10 yrs ago. ;)

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