HD DVD's AACS Protection Bypassed

Mr. BS writes "Playfuls.com is running a story how HD DVD's AACS protection has been compromised. Although the video of the hack leaves much to be desired, the source code has already been made available. Feel free to start backing up your HD DVD's whenever you feel the need."

Comments

Par for the course

[fireproofjew]

Every encryption/DRM scheme that the companies think up will inevitably be cracked/hacked. All they need to do is realize that and then they can save money instead of pursuing a futile effort. I, for one, would buy the stuff if it was worth the money they charge.

Maybe they could charge less if they didn't take the time or spend the money developing newer DRM?

Re:Par for the course

[arminw]

.....Maybe they could charge less if they didn't take the time or spend the money developing newer DRM........

Maybe the movie and music moguls are duped by the inventors and purveyors of these harebrained copy protection schemes. The latter KNOW that the laws of physics and mathematics GUARANTEE that *any* copy protection scheme WILL be broken. After all, in order to use the content, the key has to be given to the consumer in order to play it. There is NO way to hide a key, if it is needful to be able to use it at some point in order to view the movie or play the music. Perhaps some sane crypto expert can convince the content producers that they have been lied to by these crooked, money grabbing "experts" who know deep down that none of their schemes can ever work for long. The hollywood and the music industry have been sold the equivalent of a certain bridge labeled DRM by these companies who make money selling their DRM schemes to the content producers. Content makers would likely make more money if they did NOT pay these liars a dime.

Hello? Article submitter?

[Jugalator]

Feel free to start backing up your HD DVD's whenever you feel the need

Not only do we skip RTFA quite often, the article submitters seem to as well.

What he says in that quote is simply not possible; you still need the keys, and that hack doesn't cover that problem.

We may have something for that too in the future, but this is not the hack for piracy-at-will.

Re:The source is not for the "break"

[Gyorg_Lavode]

Pretty simple. He identified the encrypted key. He probably debugged the player and looked for routines that accessed that part of thefile. When he found them he ran the routine and pulled it's output out of memory.