An independent developer has cracked the private key used in Apple's AirPort Express to stream music to approved speakers, potentially allowing third-party software and hardware to receive AirPlay streams without paying Apple's licensing fee. Developer James Laird has released his work as an open source project called ShairPort. While still in its early stages, the project could upset Apple if anyone besides home tinkerers decide to make use of it.
Laird was able to find the private key after reverse engineering his girlfriend's defunct AirPort Express. From there, he wrote ShairPort to emulate the Airport Express—this enabled him to set up other computers to receive streamed music from iTunes or iOS devices. According to the ShairPort v0.02 documentation, the software implements a server to receive Apple's RAOP protocol, and can "probably" support multiple simultaneous streams. Users can even edit the Perl files to set a password for the stream so that only approved devices can connect.
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