Re: [stella] Atari 7800

Subject: Re: [stella] Atari 7800
From: bwmott@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 11:53:00 -0500 (EST)
> I am hoping to possibly get some people interested in doing some 7800 development work. The validation key in the carts is still going to be a barrier to releasing new 7800 carts, but I am looking into a simple 1 or 2 wire mod for the 7800 that would get around this problem. 
>

If we knew enough about the algorithm (is it DES in some form) then
maybe we could get a massive internet search going to recover the 7800
encryption key :-)  As I recall there's some information about the 
encryption in one of Atari's patents.  

It might take a few months but I've seen a few other projects like this
to break email messages.  The result of this search would be much more 
useful though...

Later,
Brad

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Bradford W. Mott (bwmott@xxxxxxx)          Computer Science Department
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