Rights Information Files

• See also PSP, PS3 and PS Vita RIF files.

See also Sample RIF files.

Location

The PS4 Rights Information Files and associated 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)

RIF

For a RIF file that is paired with an IDX file, see RIFA file.

RIF Structure

Fields are big-endian.

Name	Offset	Size	Example	Remark
Magic	0x000	4	52 49 46 00 ('RIF\0')
Version	0x004	2	00 01	See Type
Unknown	0x006	2	FF FF
NP 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.
Signature	0x300	256	-	RSA2048 signature. 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

• See also PS Vita shared secret on PS3 Dev Wiki contained in some PS Vita SELF headers.

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.

Name	Offset	Size	Example	Remark
Content ID Hash	0x00	16	-	On debug/fake RIFs, this is the second 16 bytes of the Content ID hash.
Padding	0x10	32	-	Zero byte padding (32 bytes)
Content Key Seed	0x30	16	-	Used to generate PFS key
SELF Key Seed	0x40	16	-	Used to generate SELF key
Unknown	0x50	16	-	Random 16 bytes of unknown purpose
Unknown	0x60	16	-	Random 16 bytes of unknown purpose
Entitlement Key	0x70	16	-	Usually all zeroes. Used on Additional Content
Padding	0x80	16	-	Zero byte padding (16 bytes)

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 Structure

Fields are big-endian.

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

RIDX File

RIDX Structure

Fields are little-endian.

Name	Offset	Size	Example	Remark
Magic	0x00	4	78 64 69 72 ('xdir', meaning RIF index)
Entries Count	0x04	4	code>01 00 00 00, 03 00 00 00
Version	0x08	1	01	1 (current)
Service ID	0x09	19	IP9100-CUSA00001_00
Unknown	0x1C	4	code>01 00 00 00, 00 00 00 00
Entries	0x20	48 * Entries_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 Digest	0x22	8	-	First 8 bytes of HMACSHA256 of RIF data using per-console data as key
Unknown	0x2A	6	-