QUOTE(tmh88 @ Nov 27 2005, 06:41 AM)

how did they get the last key for the original xbox then?
Most ofl the homebrew apps for X-Box are signed with the Habibi key, and part of the purpose of whatever the exploit you use was to make the x-box run Habibi-signed XBEs instead of MS-signed. As Globe_guyx said, the exploits take advantage of bugs to rewrite the key in memory to something that was managable. That's a gross oversimplification, but to my knowledge, the real key has never been cracked.
QUOTE(globe_guyx @ Nov 27 2005, 02:42 PM)

They didn't. The public portion of the key was altered in memory after a buffer underflow error in such a way as to make the key divisible by 3 rather than some extraordinarily huge unknown prime.
That reminds me of the movie cube...