Building the AACS Next-Gen Copy Protection Scheme

Posted by michael on Tuesday January 4, 2005 @06:27AM from the ties-that-bind dept.

Anonymous Slashdotter writes "The IEEE Spectrum has a piece that discusses the proposed encryption scheme for the upcoming HD-DVD standard. 'The key to the spirit of compromise is an agreement that the AACS specification will allow consumers to move the data on an optical disc to the various devices they own, including video servers and portable video players, either directly or via a home network.' AACS will use a so-called strong key, the 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard approved by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology."

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What about the XBOX? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-04 06:50 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The XBOX has been around for years and they still haven't been able to crack its encyption. How will this be any less secure?

Yeah, you can copy games and play them on a *modded* xbox, but the encryption method still hasn't been broken.