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Johansen Cracks AirPort Express Encryption

Posted by michael on from the airport-express-sales-increase dept.

womby writes "DVD Jon has just announced that he cracked the encryption in Apple's AirPort Express. 'I've released JustePort, a tool which lets you stream MPEG4 Apple Lossless files to your AirPort Express. The stream is encrypted with AES and the AES key is encrypted with RSA.' No real details of the process employed in cracking the unit but newsworthy none the less."

2 of 459 comments (clear)

  1. Re:huh, sounds solid... by interiot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What's NOT solid is the whole concept of selling products which contain the encrypt and decrypt keys to customers, and thinking that they're never going to be able to recover those keys from the product you just put in their hands.

  2. Must be a new definition of "cracked" by DavyByrne · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since when is using a publicly available public key to encrypt a stream of data from an application and send it to a device considered "cracking?" It seems to me that this is a good ol' hack (read: clever piece of software), just like DeCSS or the other thing he did with protected iTunes tracks.

    I wasn't surprised that the first source I saw report this called it a "crack," but had hoped by the time the story made it to /. the error would be corrected.

    By the way, you do a real disservice to people trying to fight the DMCA by calling things like this "cracks." Lawyers for the bad guys already think these sorts of hacks are actually illegal cracks. You're bolstering their opinion by conflating the two.