Decrypting Plex Streams

[ChuckPa]

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Decrypting the plex.direct certificate?

Server Version#: 1.18.9.2578 I’m trying to decrypt the plex.direct certificate. I was told that it’s stored in the servers Cache folder, and the key is equal to SHA512("plex" + id), where ID is equal to the ProcessedMachineIdentifier in preferences. However, when I run the following commands to attempt to decrypt the key and certificate: echo "plex$machineID" | sha512sum openssl pkcs12 -in certificate.p12 -out plex.cert -clcerts -nokeys -passin "pass:<that hash>" openssl pkcs12 -in certificat…