Building the AACS Next-Gen Copy Protection Scheme

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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Re:So compromised keys make for faulty hardware?

[MushMouth]

PKD lived in poverty mostly due to his severe drug habits. Read the afterward of "Through a Scanner Darkly"