[Sussex] AACS HD-DVD has cracked

[Jon Fautley]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Andrew Guard wrote:
> It already happened.
> 
> AACS has been cracked
> 
> http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=119871

That's not strictly true. It's been cracked because PowerDVD carelessly
left the decryption keys hanging around in RAM. The app that does the
actual extraction has a text file with the keys for 4 or 5 movies
included. Anything more, and you need to grab the keys manually.

Exactly this happened when we first started seeing software DVD players,
and the Xing player leaked keys in RAM and allowed people to extract
data from the disks.

It's not been cracked yet, and I'm sure that very soon Cyberlink will be
releasing a patch for PowerDVD.

Jon
- --
Jon Fautley RHCE, RHCX <jfautley at redhat.com>   direct: +44 1483 739615
 Technical Account Manager                     office: +44 1483 300169
 Red Hat UK                                    mobile: +44 7841 558683
 10 Alan Turing Road, Surrey Research Park, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7YF
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFFk+UjkRG1dDyibUQRAtIIAJ9QNpivrLpjJfc2tT7cnIUdQFi/2gCbB5il
z59TX4FuozdtuOve2D1o8Yo=
=IXs6
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----