On 28 Oct 2006, at 17:45, Jim Foraker wrote:
> On 10/27/06, Mark Senior <senatorfrog (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
>> Since the point is to make sure this is Apple hardware, the key is
>> probably loaded from some obfuscated location in firmware. Once that
> Another option is that the key is in the kext and the kext has
> some other sort of logic for validating that the hardware is genuine.
> This would have the advantage of allowing Apple to have multiple keys
> and/or to change keys as they are discovered. Either way, once
> someone sits down and reverse-engineers the kext, the key is out.

My thought was that the key is stored in the TPC chip.
Then again, if it were, I have no idea how the generic X86 crowd have
managed to get Aqua running on non-Mac hardware! [since it supposed
to be impossible to retrieve keys from the TPC].

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