Up until now Apple AirPlay has been a relatively closed book to hackers thanks to a private key lurking in the code that meant they couldn’t delve deeply into the way the streaming tech works. We’ve seen lots of AirPlay-enabled hardware but thanks to the nosiness of the owner of mafipulation.org we could see a slew of unofficial apps and open source hardware.
He says (warning this is extremely nerdy): ” I was disappointed to find that Apple used a public-key crypto scheme and there’s a private key hiding inside the ApEx. So I took it apart, dumped the ROM and reverse engineered the keys out of it.” He’s now made an open source version of the AirPlay code dubbed ShairPort and if you know how to rock Perl/C, its up for grabs. If not, sit back and wait for others to do their magic.
Out now | £free | Mafipulation(via Hacker News)
