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Apple AirPlay Private Key Exposed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-see-what-you-did-there dept.

An anonymous reader writes "James Laird has reverse engineered the Airport Express private key and published an open source AirPort Express emulator. 'My girlfriend moved house, and her Airport Express no longer made it with her wireless access point. I figured it'd be easy to find an ApEx emulator — there are several open source apps out there to play to them. However, I was disappointed to find that Apple used a public-key crypto scheme, and there's a private key hiding inside the ApEx. So I took it apart (I still have scars from opening the glued case!), dumped the ROM, and reverse engineered the keys out of it.'"

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  1. Re:real easy innit by Runaway1956 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    1. Girlfriend

    That leaves out most slashdotters, right?

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  2. Re:real easy innit by Chrisq · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I like how easy he makes it sound :-)

    Things you need to hack the Airport Express:

    1. Girlfriend

    2. A pinch of dissappointment

    3. Wilingness to break open glued Apple casing

    You'd be surprised at how many slashdotters would fail at step 1.

  3. Re:real easy innit by grub · · Score: 0, Redundant


    s/Girlfriend/RealDoll/g

    There you go.

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