ATJ2127 UPGRADE.HEX decryption

This extracts the files from ATJ2127 UPGRADE.HEX firmware upgrades, such as those used in the Sandisk Clip Sport.

You can compile this version on any 32-bit little-endian system (I think). Note that the code was automatically decompiled using a (custom) tool, and is very ugly.

Installation and setup

make decrypt
./decrypt firmware.hex

Debugging with the original binary

You don't need to do this if everything is working, but if something goes wrong you may wish to double check against the original decryption code. To do that you will need a little-endian MIPS32r2 compatible system. QEmu supports such a system with a command line such as:

qemu-system-mipsel -M malta -m 256 -kernel vmlinux-3.2.0-4-4kc-malta -hda debian_wheezy_mipsel_standard.qcow2 -append "root=/dev/sda1 console=tty0" -no-reboot -nographic -redir tcp:2222::22

Once you have your system running, download musl-libc (http://www.musl-libc.org/), compile and install it. You must do this manually as Debian does not include a statically-linked version of musl. You can then build using 'Makefile.mips'.

Note that by default decrypt.c and the assembly-language code always call the C functions. In the mips binary, two versions of each function are present: an assembly-language version, ending in _asm, and a C version, ending in _c -- so it is easy to switch between them.

Bugs and TODOs:

• MBREC not correctly decoded.
• Code is hideous (bug) and needs to be cleaned up from its auto-generated state (todo)