# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Protocol
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/zzVertigo/XboxLive.Server>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/zzVertigo/XboxLive.Server/blob/7e8e64fe45ff0036c27af5d881edc7e65a76e865/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/xbox-live-macs-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/xbox-live-macs-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/xbox-live-macs-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

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

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/zzVertigo/XboxLive.Server/blob/7e8e64fe45ff0036c27af5d881edc7e65a76e865/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/zzVertigo/XboxLive.Server/blob/7e8e64fe45ff0036c27af5d881edc7e65a76e865/LogO%27Update.md>

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