Rights Information Files

Can be found in:

• /user/license/*.rif, /user/license/*.idx
• /user/home/*/license/*.rif, /user/home/*/license/*.idx
• /mnt/disc/license/rif
• /preinst2/app/CUSA00001/app.rif
• Sc0/license.dat (in PKG entries)

Sample rif files.

Rights Information Files

For a rif file that is paired with an idx file, see RIFA file.

RIF

Fields are big-endian.

Name	Offset	Size	Example	Remark
Signature	0x000	4	52 49 46 00 ('RIF\0')
Version	0x004	2	00 01	See Type
Unknown	0x006	2	FF FF
PSN Account ID	0x008	8	AB CD EF 01 02 34 78 91	0 if not KDS RIF
Start Timestamp	0x010	8	00 00 00 00 52 85 64 00	Start timestamp (unix/epoch)
End Timestamp	0x018	8	7F FF FF FF FF FF FF FF	End timestamp (unix/epoch), typically INT64_MAX
Content ID	0x020	48	IP9100-CUSA00001_00-PLAYROOM00000000
Type	0x050	2	01 01	See Type
DRM Type	0x052	2	00 0F	Same as PKG DRM Type, PS5 Uses 00 10
Content Type	0x054	2	00 1A	Same as PKG Content Type, PS5 Uses 00 20
SKU Flag	0x056	2	00 01	Not Bootable 0 Trial 1 Full Game 3
Extra Flags	0x058	4	00 00 00 00
Unknown	0x060	4	00 02 00 00	PS5 Uses 00 00 00 00
Unknown	0x064	4	00 00 00 01
Unknown	0x068	3	-
Unknown	0x06B	1	-	02 on old rifs (3.55), 03 on new rifs (5.00)
Unknown	0x06C	468	-
Disc Key	0x240	32	-
Secret Encryption IV	0x260	16	-	At least on debug/fake RIFs, this is the first 16 bytes of the SHA-256 hash of the Content ID (all 48 bytes including nulls)
Encrypted Secret	0x270	144	-	See Secret for when decrypted. On debug/fake rifs, the decrypted secret is empty except the first 16 bytes, which are the second 16 bytes of the Content ID hash.
RSA Signature	0x300	256	-	Verified using public key depending on type

Type

Type	FW Type	Min Ver	Max Ver	Name	Description	Remarks
0x000	All	1	1	KDS (NPDRM)	Used for digital content	Revoked in at least 4.05
0x001	All	2	2
0x002	All	3	3
0x101	All	1	1	Isolated (Free,Kiosk)	Used for truly free content (Playroom, Vue, Spotify)
0x302
0x102	All	1	1	Disc	Used for Blu-ray content
0x200	DEX/TEST	1	1	Fake/Debug	Used for testing/debugging
0x201
0x202
0x303	CEX	1	1	?
0x304	? (not CEX)	1	1	?
0x305	DEX/TEST	1	1	?

Secret

Name	Offset	Size	Example	Remark
Unknown	0x00	16	-
Unknown	0x10	16	-
Unknown	0x20	16	-
Content Key Seed	0x30	16	-	Used to generate PFS key
SELF Key Seed	0x40	16	-	Used to generate SELF key
Unknown	0x50	16	-
Unknown	0x60	16	-
Entitlement Key	0x70	16	-
Unknown	0x80	16	-

RIFA File

See also RIDX structure for the paired idx file.

When in this form, a RIFA header is present, followed by sequential rifs.

RIFA Header

Fields are big-endian.

Name	Offset	Size	Example	Remark
Signature	0x000	4	52 49 46 00 ('RIF\0')
Service ID	0x004	48	IP9100-CUSA00001_00	Size assumed
Unknown	0x034	972	-

RIDX File

RIDX Header

Fields are little-endian.

Name	Offset	Size	Example	Remark
Signature	0x00	4	78 64 69 72 ('xdir')
RIF Count	0x04	4	01 00 00 00
Version	0x08	1	01	1 (current)
Service ID	0x09	19	IP9100-CUSA00001_00
Unknown	0x1C	4	01 00 00 00
Entries	0x20	48 * RIF Count	-	See RIDX entry

RIDX Entry

Fields are little-endian.

Name	Offset	Size	Example	Remark
Entitlement label	0x00	16	PLAYROOM00000000
RIF Offset	0x10	8	00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00	Offset into RIFA file
RIF Size	0x18	8	00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00
Unknown	0x20	1	01
Unknown	0x21	1	00
RIF HMAC	0x22	8	-	First 8 bytes of HMACSHA256 of RIF data using per-console data as key
Unknown	0x2A	6	-