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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."

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  1. What does it means? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    It means that you can capture the streamed audio in the way from a Mac to an AirPort Express? It means you can stream encrypted audio to the AirPort Express? If it's not the first, then I don't see much problem. If it is the second, how is it different than streaming without any cryptography? (I hear that's possible but no one has confirmed it to me yet)

    ps: Can't read the article, slashdoted.

  2. Re:What? by AKnightCowboy · · Score: 0, Troll
    The parent didn't say the group was large, he said the legal system in Norway is largely fair.

    Actually yes, he did. He said: " He is just a front figure of a large international cracking group."
    "Large international cracking group" implies that the group is large, not 3 members. Either way this guy is a criminal and should be extradited to the US to stand trial for his crimes against humanity.

  3. A Martyrs Vision by Rie+Beam · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's always very interesting to see these little Open-Source quirks pop-up - I mean, it's obvious the guy is going to have his ass handed to him by Apple, so why bother? It feels like there's some kind of "Greater Good" vibe that goes through, and makes people willing to do foolish things for the OS community. Like a martyr of open-source technology, in a sense. People sacking themselves in the name of Linus. In other news, we're about one week away from suicide bombings on the Redmond HQ by Linux totalists.

  4. Re:OT: Saddam by klez23 · · Score: 0, Troll

    know who has violated more UN resolutions than any other country? Israel. Know whose second in line? the USA. Time to get busy enforcing, I hear Bush has weapons of mass destruction...