Spkg hdr.tar

Signed Package headers

Added since firmware 3.56. Contains the TAR'ed collection of all signed PKG headers.

To decrypt them you need to use spkg keyset.

History

The very first (early) 4.xx CFWs were only installable over 3.55 because they were not having new spkg.

spkg is supposed to be created newly.

The easiest way for now is that you get metadata of your new spkg and decrypt it, then encrypt with spkg keys.

The reason why CFW is not installable over any OFW is that we dont have spkg private keys.

PS3 verifies it on both xmb and recovery mode. Even if xmb makes it good, it will fail when installation screens pops up.

For more info on CF encryption, refer here.

3.56 CEX/Retail spkg_hdr.tar content

BDIT_FIRMWARE_PACKAGE.pkg.spkg_hdr.1
BDPT_FIRMWARE_PACKAGE_301R.pkg.spkg_hdr.1
BDPT_FIRMWARE_PACKAGE_302R.pkg.spkg_hdr.1
BDPT_FIRMWARE_PACKAGE_303R.pkg.spkg_hdr.1
BDPT_FIRMWARE_PACKAGE_304R.pkg.spkg_hdr.1
BDPT_FIRMWARE_PACKAGE_306R.pkg.spkg_hdr.1
BDPT_FIRMWARE_PACKAGE_308R.pkg.spkg_hdr.1
BLUETOOTH_FIRMWARE.pkg.spkg_hdr.1
CORE_OS_PACKAGE.pkg.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_000.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_001.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_002.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_003.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_004.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_005.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_006.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_007.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_008.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_009.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_010.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_011.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_012.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_013.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_014.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_015.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_016.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_017.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_018.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_019.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_020.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash_021.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
dev_flash3_022.tar.aa.2011_01_25_032219.spkg_hdr.1
MULTI_CARD_FIRMWARE.pkg.spkg_hdr.1
SYS_CON_FIRMWARE_01000006.pkg.spkg_hdr.1
SYS_CON_FIRMWARE_01010303.pkg.spkg_hdr.1
SYS_CON_FIRMWARE_01020302.pkg.spkg_hdr.1
SYS_CON_FIRMWARE_01030302.pkg.spkg_hdr.1
SYS_CON_FIRMWARE_01040402.pkg.spkg_hdr.1
SYS_CON_FIRMWARE_01050002.pkg.spkg_hdr.1
SYS_CON_FIRMWARE_01050101.pkg.spkg_hdr.1
SYS_CON_FIRMWARE_S1_00010002083E0832.pkg.spkg_hdr.1
UPL.xml.pkg.spkg_hdr.1

Example

BDIT_FIRMWARE_PACKAGE.pkg.spkg_hdr.1
Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 00000000 53 43 45 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 SCE............. 00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 80 00 00 00 00 00 1E 01 10 .......€........ 00000020 - 0000027F CF Header

Structure

Address	Length	Value	Description
0x0	0x4	0x53434500 / ASCII: 'SCE\0'	Magic
0x4	0x4	0x2	Version
0x8	0x2	0x0	Attribute
0x8	0x4	0x3	Category: pkg
0xC	0x4	0x0	Extended Header offset
0x10	0x8	0x280	File offset
0x18	0x8	0x1E0110	File size

Tools

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