From: Josh Nisly <joshn_at_invtools.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 14:06:57 -0600

Does this mean that the focus for new Rockbox "expansion" will change
from mp3 players from other manufacturers (Neo, xclef players) to Archos
multimedia players?

Björn Stenberg wrote:

>Hi.
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>My little christmas project has paid off. I just committed an update to 'descrambler' which supports descrambling Multimedia firmware files. I'll commit a new 'scrambler' tomorrow.
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>The Multimedia firmware files are compressed using a custom token packing algorithm, and then XORed with a 32-byte string. The descrambler tool finds this string automagically, simply by assuming that 0 is the most common byte in the plaintext. A simple statistical analysis then produces the string.
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>The compression was trickier, but thanks to it not being very efficient (gzip compresses the firmware to about 60% of the .ajz size) there was plenty of plaintext to look at in the compressed data.
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Received on 2004-01-08