[xiaNaix]

Bushing has released a tool for grabbing the keys from your Wii console.

This isn’t the prettiest code I’ve ever written — it doesn’t have much of an interface, and I just threw this release together in a few minutes. However, it’s been exceedingly useful to me, and hopefully some of you will find it useful, too. I’ll quote the README here:

This program will do the following, automaticaly:

* Download IOS11 from the Nintendo Update Server
* Patch it to remove the MEM2 protection (so the PPC can access all 64MB of it)
* Patch it to allow it to delete itself later using ES_DeleteTitle()
* Find an unused IOS slot (counting downward from IOS255),
and install the hacked IOS11 there
* Reboot into the hacked IOS
* Copy the private key structure from the IOS address space into MEM1
* Reboot back into a sane IOS
* Delete the temporary, hacked IOS
* Display the keys on screen
* Try to write them to a file on the SD card -- keys.txt
* Pause for 60 seconds to allow you to copy the keys down using pen and paper,
if necessary

I wrote this a week or two after I killed a Wii trying to reproduce tmbinc's
original Tweezer Hack. May it rest in peace.

The first version of this code just used a patched version of IOS, which was
an ugly hack. It's still an ugly hack, but at least it no longer contains
copyrighted code. Although you should only really need to run it once on any
given Wii, it should be safe to run as much as you want. If nothing else, it
demonstrates the kinds of ways you can use PatchMii_core to do something useful
(as opposed to just running it and then packaging the result up as cIOS).

(c) 2008 bushing / hackmii.com

News Source: HackMii

Additional comments from Bushing...

If anyone asks me what the point of this program is or why they need these keys or how to use them, I’m going to hit them.

[WiiModWiis]

To save Bushing from a possible charge of assault and battery, you can read this link, Wii Encryption Key and what they do!

[niemand0815]

how funny would it be if this little tool would just secretly disable bushings freshly discovered hole in wii-security?
*eg*

[ebob]

Pretty hilarious considering that it's open source.

[niemand0815]

how many people to really understand the code and what it exactly does? :-)
and maybe there is just a small tiny bit of code left out *eg*

and how many people would use this before checking the sourcecode?
most "users" just tend to look for success-reports, and nobody would notice anything until its too late.

and it was a hypothetical post :-) i dont expect anything like that from bushing.