YifanLu: “Yes, it’s a kernel exploit!”, and more explanations about HENkaku
A few weeks ago, developer Yifanlu, (one of the members of Team molecule behind the PS Vita 3.60 hack HENkaku), challenged hackers to reverse engineer the Henkaku exploit. The explicit goal of this challenge is to force hackers to take some interest into the PS Vita’s security, which Yifan claims is one of the strongest he’s seen on a consumer device.
St4rk, whom we’ve mentioned recently for his contribution to VitaDump, has been reverse engineering HENkaku and posted some details on his findings, on his blog here. It’s a great read because he doesn’t only explain what he’s found so far, but also how he proceeded to find it. Extremely educative.
As people progress on the reverse engineering of Henkaku, team molecule are keeping their promise of releasing more source code and explaining more of the hack. Team molecule’s Xyz recently explained the PSV 3.60/PS4 3.55 Webkit hack, and a few days ago also explained how the Offline version of HENkaku works. Furthermore, Team molecule have released the source code of stage 2 of the Henkaku chain.
For those of you interested in understanding how these things work, the explanations from xyz, St4rk, and Yifanlu are all very relevant. Give them a read!
Kernel Stack leak – St4rk
Source: YifanLu
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whoa we commented at the same time
That is so amazing. How did you do that? You are icredible
Nope u were a 1 minute slower…too bad u lose!
You will always be last in our hearts
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You will always be last in our hearts
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damn….
lol
You will always be last in our hearts
Pathetic
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The first and second guys get threw but i have to await moderation every time
Yup, this is due to how simple the spam parser is and the fact that your username contains something it thinks is offensive
grow up people.
people who comment with “first” and “second” are *** ***
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if this is an exploit kernel means that the bubbles will be back for PSP / PSX games? would be great
That’s what many of us are hoping.
I hate the PS Vita bubble interface.. i like the old XMB from PSP, can we do that once we have a proper CFW??
It really is exciting times for the Vita scene at the moment. Really reminds me of the early days of the PSP. (Perhaps I should say day one of the PSP)
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Nothig wrong with being first.
when you mean kernel exploit, what do you mean? kernel exploit for vita side? or for the psp side? and what can we achieve with that? better emulation, ps1/psp(homebrew)/custom bubbles on live area?
Vita Kernel exploit. Can theoretically achieve anything that the hardware permits.
You’ve got a lot on your plate to write about this week. Hang in there, Wololo!
Thanks 🙂
psp and ps1 emulator possible?
everyone wanting a vita cfw.. have you ever thought that henkaku could be just that? it allows unsigned code to install, its a kernel exploit, ability to run backups, and even has psn spoofing now.
got curious, so where able to decrypt/modify/encrypt vita eboots now and make them run?
Will this help the research on ps4 kernel exploit?
No because it’s for the Vita you *** ***.
Cool. Thks guys.
Got HENkaku to work on my vita going to get more apps for it soon so I can do more with homebrew.
“… PS Vita’s security, which Yifan claims is one of the strongest he’s seen on a consumer device.”
It obviously has to be. It’s a consumer device that wasn’t jailbroken within the first two weeks. Not even the first few years. And even when it was, the first real jailbreaks were a pain in the ***.
Gotta love the people who spend all day and night hammering F5, only to be able to comment “First” as soon as a new post comes up…
That’s internet and people with no lives for you xD