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I found firmware for Slingbox 500 by sniffing the outgoing connections it is making. Having trouble making heads or tails of it though. I'd really love to see the filesystem because it's running dropbear ssh server!

files as follow, were obtained from http://mdconfig.sling.com/config/v2/type/ngsb/product/intrepidCbfu/version/01.10.095.json --

{
"payload":
    "{"config":
        {
         "updateVersion":"01.10.102",
         "rebootTimeMsec":68000,
         "firmwareComponents":
            {
            "appfsRecovery":
                {
                    "critical":false,
                    "crc":123,
                    "order":1,
                    "reboot":false,
                    "url":"www.navjit.com",
                    "size":123,
                    "version":"0.5.102"
                },
            "uImageMain":
                {
                    "critical":false,
                    "crc":1863698014,
                    "order":2,
                    "reboot":false,
                    "url":"http://cbfu-prod.slingbox.com/Intrepid/Intrepid_FW_01_10_102/s_fw4_uImage_mips_gz_118.bin",
                    "size":5463888,
                    "version":"1.9.118"
                },
            "FW3":
                {
                    "critical":false,
                    "crc":2050778634,
                    "order":3,
                    "reboot":false,
                    "url":"http://cbfu-prod.slingbox.com/Intrepid/Intrepid_FW_01_10_102/intrepid_fw3_f_p_1_5_432.bin",
                    "size":262144,
                    "version":"1.5.432"
                },
            "FW2":
                {
                    "critical":false,
                    "crc":2050778634,
                    "order":4,
                    "reboot":false,
                    "url":"www.navjit.com",
                    "size":123,
                    "version":"0.5.472"
                },
            "FW1":
                {
                    "critical":false,
                    "crc":123,
                    "order":5,
                    "reboot":false,
                    "url":"www.navjit.com",
                    "size":123,
                    "version":"0.5.472"
                },
            "uImageRecovery":
                {
                    "critical":false,
                    "crc":123,
                    "order":0,
                    "reboot":false,
                    "url":"www.navjit.com",
                    "size":123,
                    "version":"1.5.002"
                }
            },
        "applications":
            {
                "sbCore":
                    {
                        "urlMeta":"http://cbfu-prod.slingbox.com/Intrepid/Intrepid_FW_01_10_102/FW5_SIG_01_10_102.tar",
                        "critical":false,
                        "sizeMeta":10240,
                        "reboot":true,
                        "type":"file_system",
                        "url":"http://cbfu-prod.slingbox.com/Intrepid/Intrepid_FW_01_10_102/intrepid_fw5_full_01.10.102_nand.ubi.gz.aes",
                        "version":"01.10.102",
                        "size":99865328
                    }
            }
        }
    }",

        "header":
            {
                "signatureEncoding":"base64",
                "msgType":"plain",
                "signature":" 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",
"configEncoding":"none"
            }
}

Binwalk is blank on both of these files:

The following tar file expands into three separate files:

And probably the most interesting file which appears thoroughly encrypted (95 MB):

So here I am wondering if there is a chance to get further or if I'm stuck. I'm not against hardware tinkering, though I would certainly be clumsy with it and would require some handholding. Any thoughts? Thanks.

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Most likely the decryption key is hardcoded in the firmware on the device or in some storage there. You will probably need to get into the device somehow to figure out how it does the firmware update decryption.

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