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== Description ==
== Description ==
An activation file for a Sony Playstation' console, based on an account email and password, the devices IDPS, the platform and activation type. It is also used to de-/crypt [[EDAT files]] for a game.


An activation file for a Sony Playstation console, based on an account email and password, the devices IDPS, the platform and activation type.
=== Location ===
 
"home/000000XX/exdata/act.dat""
It is used to decrypt NPDRM content license files (.rif) and [[EDAT files]], which themselves lead to content decryption (PFS layer, SELF layer).
 
== Location ==
 
=== PSP ===
 
<pre>
flash2:/act.dat
</pre>
 
=== PS3 ===
 
dev_hdd0:/home/000000XX/exdata/act.dat
 
=== PSVita ===
 
[[Files_on_the_PS_Vita#tm0|tm0]]:/npdrm/act.dat
[[Files_on_the_PS_Vita#tm0|tm0]]:/psmdrm/act.dat (only if PSM Is activated)
 
== Structure ==
 
{| class="wikitable"
! Name !! Offset !! Size !! Example !! Notes
|-
| Activation Type || 0x0 || 0x2 || 0001 || 1 = local
|-
| Version Flag || 0x0 || 0x2 || 0000, 0001 || 0 for v.1, 1 for v.2.
|-
| Version || 0x4 || 0x4 || 00000001, 00000002 || 1 (PSP and PS3 parser) or 2 (PSVita parser)
|-
| Account ID || 0x8 || 0x8 || AB CD EF 01 02 34 78 91 || PSN Account ID (in little endian)
|-
| Primary Key Table || 0x10 || 0x800 || N.A || Encrypted RIF keys table
|-
| Unknown 1 || 0x810 || 0x40 || N.A ||
|-
| OpenPsId || 0x850 || 0x10 || N.A ||
|-
| Unknown 2 || 0x860 || 0x10 || N.A || Encrypted data for v.1 / Unknown (8 bytes) + Padding (8 bytes) for v.2
|-
| Unknown 4 || 0x870 || 0x10 || N.A || Encrypted data for v.1 / Start Time (8 bytes) + Expiration Time (8 bytes) for v.2
|-
| Secondary Table || 0x880 || 0x650 || N.A ||
|-
| RSA Signature|| 0xED0 || 0x100 || N.A || RSA Public Key for RIF type 0 and 1
|-
| Unknown Signature || 0xFD0 || 0x40 || N.A || Maybe AES CMAC (0x20 key + 0x20 hash) or AES HMAC.
|-
| ECDSA Signature || 0x1010 || 0x28 || N.A || pub=vsh_pub, ctype=0x02(vsh_curves)
|}
 
The Primary Key table is unique per PSN account. It is encrypted using AES ECB with the ConsoleId (IDPS, PSID) of the console activated with this PSN account.
 
== Downloading ==
 
NOT WORKING ANYMORE.
 
A PHP script is released to obtain the act.dat. See [[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://playstationhax.xyz/forums/topic/550-news-vita-hack/?page=4#comment-23519 playstationhax.xyz]]
 
[[http://pastie.org/private/5koe6klxypv8dpbxkcmda pastie]]
 
<source lang="PHP">
<?php
$data = array(
        "loginid" => "", /* email */
        "password" => "", /*pass */
        "consoleid" => "", /* 000000000000000000000 */
        "platform" => "psp2", /* for vita, don't modify, possible parameters psp,ps3,psp2.ps4 is unknown */
        "acttype" => "4", /* for vita, don't modify */
);
$custom_headers = array(
        "X-I-5-DRM-Version: 1.0",
);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://commerce.np.ac.playstation.net/cap.m");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "8888888");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $custom_headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CERTINFO, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$fp = fopen("act.dat", "wb");
fwrite($fp, $response);
fclose($fp);
?>
</source>
 
== Related ==


=== Known Issues/bugs ===
* [[QA_Flagging#Act.dat_.28PSN_activation.29_gets_deleted|Act.dat (PSN activation) gets deleted]]
* [[QA_Flagging#Act.dat_.28PSN_activation.29_gets_deleted|Act.dat (PSN activation) gets deleted]]




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