Case study

Xbox Live Machine Account Creation Service: reconstructing authentication exchanges

Xbox Live Machine Account Creation Service investigates Xbox Live 1.0 authentication exchanges through a C# replacement service. The author reports parsing AS-REQ messages, decrypting encrypted timestamps and constructing AS-REP responses, while the service remains incomplete.

Targets: Protocol
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 44
Last commit: 2020-03-29
Language: C#
Status: Archived

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Limits: The authentication service is incomplete; the author reports an unresolved AS-REP sequence issue.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{xbox-live-macs-case,
  title = {{Xbox Live Machine Account Creation Service: reconstructing authentication exchanges}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/zzVertigo/XboxLive.Server}},
  url = {https://github.com/zzVertigo/XboxLive.Server},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/xbox-live-macs-case/}}
}

Plain text

Xbox Live Machine Account Creation Service: reconstructing authentication exchanges. https://github.com/zzVertigo/XboxLive.Server (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/xbox-live-macs-case/

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README.md GitHub · zzVertigo/XboxLive.Server · Revision 7e8e64f
LogO%27Update.md GitHub · zzVertigo/XboxLive.Server · Revision 7e8e64f