PkgDecrypt: St4rkDev decrypts PKG Files
Developer St4rkDev just released PkgDecrypt for the PS Vita, a tool that lets you decrypt Vita .pkg files.
This is different from dumpers such as MaiDumpTool in that it can run directly on your computer: in other words, St4rkDev has figured out some of the decryption keys used on the PSVita and is now able to use them outside of the device.
In terms of practical use for the end user, this won’t change much for now. Decrypting packages doesn’t mean you can magically do anything with them, and with HENkaku people pretty much have full access to both homebrews and piracy already, so this doesn’t open new doors here, for now. Nevertheless, pretty good progress here and confirmation that St4rkdev is one of the handful of people who have deep understanding of the PS Vita internals.
St4rkDev also credits proxima for his help on the tool.
Download PkgDecrypt
You can download PkgDecrypt from the dev’s github here. This is the source code so you’ll need to compile it yourself.
Source: St4rkdev
primero
It doesn’t count if you don’t say ‘first’
Nice one! Guy.
Gagal Pertamax
So does the PS4 use different keys?
I’m also interested if it can also be used on PS4 pkg’s
is this can be decrypt license permision on psp .rif file?
can we decrypt updates using this?
Does this open the doors for cheats?
the “beginning” of the psvita emulator
There’s nothing to emulate yet, since EBOOTs are still encrypted (aren’t they?).
At least now there’s no need to bother with dumping whole games when you can get them directly off of PSN at any time and just back up the decrypted (reconstructed) EBOOT if you want to play your game on any of your Vitas and PSN accounts in the future.
I’m also curious whether this tool decrypts DLC and game updates.
Axiom Verge Dump now?? 🙂
Would this be the first step to Vita games being runnable on a PS3?
This xfce DE with arc theme looks like mirror image of my desktop.
Could we use this to decrypt Minecraft DLC .pkg files to use custom skins?