Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to games@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months agoNintendo knows it can't prove emulation is illegal, but its latest tactic is very effective at knocking out sources of Switch piracywww.gamesradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up193arrow-down10
arrow-up193arrow-down1external-linkNintendo knows it can't prove emulation is illegal, but its latest tactic is very effective at knocking out sources of Switch piracywww.gamesradar.comYuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to games@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareMoonworm [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·8 months ago“When a game is started on the Nintendo Switch console a Game TPM is decrypted using cryptographic keys that are protected by Console TPMs. The games themselves can then be decrypted by the decrypted Game TPMs so the game can be played.” Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.
minus-squareMajinBlayze [any, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoIt’s called a “Key Encryption Key” or KEK (yes, really) It’s not exactly a new concept in cryptography. https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/key_encryption_key
“When a game is started on the Nintendo Switch console a Game TPM is decrypted using cryptographic keys that are protected by Console TPMs. The games themselves can then be decrypted by the decrypted Game TPMs so the game can be played.”
Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.
It’s called a “Key Encryption Key” or KEK (yes, really)
It’s not exactly a new concept in cryptography.
https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/key_encryption_key