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HD DVD's AACS Protection Bypassed

Posted by kdawson on from the 8-days-to-a-crack dept.

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."

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  1. Dupe by rrohbeck · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/ 28/0259244

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  2. And the winner is.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess HD DVD just won the war against blu-ray!

  3. The source is not for the "break" by plover · · Score: 5, Informative
    The source code provided is simply code to decrypt the stream. It's an implementation of the AACS published standard for decrypting a stream. What it does not do is provide a way to extract the keys from the disks.

    The author is waiting till some time in the new year to reveal how he got the keys, but the evidence suggests to me that he used some kind of debugging hook into Power HD-DVD.

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  4. It needs a name... by jakedata · · Score: 5, Funny

    How about AACS-Hole?

  5. Should read: by Swimport · · Score: 5, Funny

    Feel free to back up your hd-dvds once you get some.

  6. Actually... by raehl · · Score: 5, Funny

    This was just a backup of the last article.

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