HackMii

Notes from inside your Wii

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xyzzy

July 22nd, 2008 · 44 Comments

This isn’t the prettiest code I’ve ever written — it doesn’t have much of an interface, and I just threw this release together in a few minutes. However, it’s been exceedingly useful to me, and hopefully some of you will find it useful, too. I’ll quote the README here: This program will do the following, […]

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Tags: Wii

Keys, keys, keys.

April 15th, 2008 · 23 Comments

By popular request, here’s an explanation of the different encryption keys that are used on the Wii. AES Keys: The Wii uses 128-bit (16-byte) symmetric AES (aka AES-128-CBC) for most encryption. Common key (ebe42a225e8593e448d9c5457381aaf7):  This is the “shared secret” that we extracted with the Tweezer Hack.  This key is known by all Wiis, but is […]

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Tags: Wii