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DVD Security Group Says It Has Fixed AACS Flaws
SkillZ wrote to mention an article at the IBT site discussing a fix to the security breech of the HD DVD and Blu-ray media formats. "Makers of software for playing the discs on computers will offer patches containing new keys and closing the hole that allowed observant hackers to discover ways to strip high-def DVDs of their protection. On Monday, the group that developed the Advanced Access Content System said it had worked with device makers to deactivate those keys and refresh them with a new set."
Makers of software for playing the discs on computers will offer patches containing new keys and closing the hole that allowed observant hackers to discover ways to strip high-def DVDs of their protection.
Do they not understand, that if you can view it, you can copy it?
On the other hand, maybe they do understand, and HD-DVD/Blu-Ray 2.0 will offer only un-viewable content. Step 3, profit!
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and it will join the ranks of every other DRM mechanism devised.
"Corel has told users of its software that failure to download the free patch will disable the ability to play high-def DVDs."
Is this making a reference to the current crop of HD's that were purchased? Does the software phone home? Just curious. Any thoughts?
They really want this to be perceived as tight to sign up content providers.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
How about future successes ?
I give it 5 minutes.
Maybe 10.
Don't you just love the corporate spin: The AACS (Advanced Access Content System) just happens to be a mechanism to deny access to the content. The moniker certainly makes the technology appear benign to Joe Sixpack consumer.
HD-DVD Hacked (again)... This is just going to be a never-ending cycle.
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If that's "fixing the flaws", then I guess whenever I fill my gas tank I'm "inventing perpetual motion".
The flaws aren't fixed. They're just papered over slightly more aggressively. Don't worry, there'll be more flaws.
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Is that like a chastity belt? Or maybe an adult diaper?
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and other digital restrictions only available with Vista. On second thought, I'll pass.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
I read this bit:
"New high-def DVDs will include updated keys and instructions for older versions of the PC-playback software not to play discs until the software patch has been installed."
No one gives my computer instructions but me. So I will have nothing to do with either of these formats at all. I am just gonna say no and take my business elsewhere.
DVD is quite fine, and where it doesn't then there are hard drives. Hollywood can give me movies in a format I'll accept or they can e2fsck off.
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I am just wondering what "normal" customer's will think, I mean - geeks and technophiles understand the the new efforts to close AACS is just not a solution, just another workaround in a loosing battle. But I wonder what normal people think, I really doubt that average Joe will think that a patch to this system is really a good thing. Most people want to be able to copy their content, make backups, etc. One of the benefits for a lot of people with the DVD format is that DVD players are available as region free players, you can copy disks from friends, etc. I'm not saying that piracy is necessarily a good thing, just that far too many (and increasing) people enjoy that and that in itself will be a problem for the next-gen media players.
No no no. Let's just tidy that baby up a bit:
"Makers of software for playing the discs on computers are requiring consumers to download patches that will re-apply the product defects that computing professionals had removed in the weeks prior. Despite the fact that nothing is technically wrong with the older versions of the software, it is being intentionally rendered obsolete to force the update -- no new movies will be viewable on the old software."
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ISTR that Muslix64's attack worked by identifying the keys in active RAM. So how does revoking the keys defeat this attack?
They didn't fix any flaws. They just deactivated old keys and issued new ones. Supposedly InterVideo will be patched to be more secure (aka try to hide the new key). Maybe that is what they are talking about but it still does not fix any flaws by a long shot. Just look at all the cracked versions of software out there that have all kinds of fancy safety and protection mechanisms and are still cracked daily. As long as its in memory in unencrypted form for any amount of time, it can be obtained.
What they have done is analogous to re-keying a lock that is susceptible to being picked -- it's only a matter of time before it is picked again. Lather, rinse, repeat. And how long before a hardware player is cracked? If I had one I'd bust into it to see what kind of flash it has. It probably has an on-board JTAG or other programming port to dump the memory like most consumer devices which are mass produced and then flashed assembly style, making obtaining the key quite easy. When the players come down in price I fully expect them to be cracked on a daily basis.
"I'll just chip in a bit for RedHat: I actually have that installed on my university machine." - Linus, '95
I feel sorry for anyone who has to give birth to DVDs, let alone backwards.
Sharp edges. Ouch.
I guess that nobody with VC understands that DRM is simply a VERY expensive, very stressful game of whack-a-mole.
It amazes me that so many people believe that they can do the DRM game and make huge money. Recent news tells me that if the US government is trying to influence other countries to do more about copyright infringement, well then, DRM must not work worth a damn, otherwise there would be no need for US Governmental intervention. With that bit of proof that it won't work, doesn't work, and can't work, it should be relatively obvious to all concerned that the only way that DRM *CAN* work is if governments create laws that make it illegal to not use DRM.
Media and content providers simply have to get on the right bandwagon... DRM isn't it. No matter what fantastically great work they do for any particular DRM scheme it will always end up broken. There is no method that can reasonably ensure secure keys when the unencrypted content has to be present to view it. Sigh, old dogs, new tricks, bad circus experiences....
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If someone does break the new key, just wait. Please, wait. Until the format war is over, and there are thousands of titles out, everybody has a player, etc. Then announce.
Thanks for listening.
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The number one reason Vista is Sinking Like a Stone, is "DRM problems and lack of anything even remotely demonstrating an understanding of how users want to use digital media." If DVD makers tighten up, people are going to route around them the same way they are routing around the RIAA member companies. They will flock to independent film makers and the big dumb publishers will watch their earnings collapse at 20% per year. Their greed goes beyond the already insane limits of copyright and that kind of thing is simply not fun.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
It's that simple. Educate friends and family and loved ones on the tactics that are employed by the powers that be to various pieces of hardware and software.
Just think - if 90% of the population boycotted music CDs and DVDs for an extended period of time, the RIAA and MPAA and others would get a very clear message that what they are doing is just simply not on. The hard bit is educating people to realise that they can make a difference, but that they have to show their view and their hand.
Dave
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I know I'm getting offtopic here, but I personally know some people who are rich, own copyrighted content, and are absolutely obsessed with controlling it. They're not people I can understand. They think that every reasonable fair use right should be carefully meted out by themselves alone, that they should be able to revoke rights to anyone at any time for any reason, that allowing a user to copy their content without explicit licensing and permission would be the start of some file-sharing apocalypse. It's not even so much about the money with them as it is the power and control. And every time they hear about DRM being broken they want some new, better way of controlling their media. As much as I praise EMI for their actions of late, I can't help but think the people I know represent the bulk of the **AAs. The more we prove DRM is useless to a customer that has access to the hardware and software, the more appealing "Trusted Computing" will become to the Industry. Add a nanny-state government to that and you've got a recipe for disaster. And the "average consumer" wouldn't raise a stink about it. Even a locked-down home-phoning appliance could run Microsoft Office and QuickBooks and HALO*, so 99% of people wouldn't care. Tell them it's more "secure" and they'll buy it. (...wait, they already play HALO on locked-down home-phoning trusted-computing appliances...)
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Because we can. Forget about laws in books, even forget that Bill Of Rights that some of you have, they get ignored all the time. Rights are yours if you have the means to enforce your ability to exercise your right.
http://www.xboxhacker.net/index.php?topic=6866.0
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?&t=124294&p
http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/aacs-hacked-to
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You're missing the point.
The benefit of all these cracks isn't to allow people to copy the movies. That ability was never in doubt -- people will always be able to do that. They'll be able to do that regardless of what the content monopolies do, short of just deciding that they won't release movies anymore (which is fine; there's enough of a demand for entertainment that other people will do it -- there's nothing special about making movies that a lot of people can't do, it just takes a lot of money).
Holding onto a crack until AACS is ubiquitous wouldn't do anything. The ultimate failure of AACS isn't, and never was, in doubt -- all DRM is flawed, and it will eventually be broken.
The question is whether it's possible to convince both the studios/content-creators, and consumers, of the utter futility of DRM in the first place, so they'll stop trying to do it, and stop wasting everyone's time. DRM is nothing but a broken window: it's millions of man-hours and probably billions of dollars of resources diverted from other, more productive, tasks, both to create it and break it. That's the real cost of DRM.
So if by releasing cracks for AACS every time they update it, as quickly as possible, it demonstrates to the studios that they're engaging in a war against a guerrilla enemy that they can't possibly defeat, regardless of how much money they spend, perhaps they'll throw in the towel sooner rather than later. It may be a slim chance, but given that Apple has started to see the light, there's some hope.
That's the real benefit of these cracks. Compared to the economic and social cost of the wasted effort, the ability of people to pirate a few movies pales in comparison.
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I'm sorry, but this is /. and we only allow automotive analogies here. Please rephrase.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Isn't it possible to fool all these HD DVD, DVD, DRM protected media players buy supplying some sort of virtual videodrivers? Or even some lightweight virtual environment the players can run in. You start the player, the player tries to play the HD DVD in maximum resolution, the virtual video driver allows it... but it doesnt show it... just write it to disc. With some sort of virtual machine surrounding the player, it can also adjust the clock/time so that the player won't even notice that it's a time-consuming process? I'm no guru on this, but if something like this is doable it would help how much they change their keys.
Audio CDs were invented in 1983, before many people were computer proficient to make perfect digitial copies of songs. It was only in 1991 or so that digital DRM was invented.
True Audio CDs have no DRM. New "CDs" that have no DVDs hidden on them should have no DRM, since no one is making pure "CD" DRM anymore. If you buy CDs from non-RIAA labels, you should never run into DRM at all.
Now, DVDs do have DRM. So the question is, how do we get manufacturers to make Laserdiscs again?
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Some of you might remember the DVD-Audio 'hack'. Well guess what? The Intervideo keys got revoked. Then guess what happened?
That's right, the people that payed Intervideo for their player that was advertised to play DVD-Audio are TOL. Intervideo pulled the functionality out of their new players and the people that had bought the older version are only going to be able to playback DVD-Audio discs that were mastered pre-revoked keys. Unless they upgrade, in which case they can't play any DVD-Audio.
I'm just saying that software players that play any of the new DRMd media are bound to be 'cracked' and you are bound to be on the short end of the pissing contest, even though you are paying for a product based on functionality that's advertised.
I can't wait for this to happen to a 'hardware' player that has sold many units. What's needed is a large enough quantity of people being pissed off by paying for something that won't deliver. Unfortunately getting a key out of a hardware device is probably at least one or two orders of magnitude more complicated...
I fear that eventually the content industry will give up on DRM and attack the users more directly. Not that they don't currently, but the investment in DRM can turn into an investment in p2p spying and lawyers. Maybe I'm just uninformed, but the number of legal incidents concerning music sharing seems greater than the number of legal incidents concerning movie sharing. I don't know that the music industry invests in DRM as much as the movie industry either. So while everyone clamors about how it will get hacked again and that the content industry should abandon DRM, I ponder what would really happen if they DID abandon DRM, and what I fear is that all that investment will go into the more direct assaults on users.
That sounds like a fantastic place to receive unbiased, neutral, well-researched information about a Microsoft product. Run by the FSF, no less! WOW!!
Here is the important question:
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If you were the implementer of AACS on HD player SW, how would you hide the key? I can think of a few ways:
1. Keep the data in CPU registers and cache.
2. Split the keys up into smaller pieces, and spread them around when in memory.
It seems that both is basically security through obscurity, and that has not worked very well in the future.
If you respond to this with a clever way to do this, make sure you post the reason it will not stand up to hackers as well. Otherwise, keep it to yourself
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Is this making a reference to the current crop of HD's that were purchased? Does the software phone home? Just curious. Any thoughts?
The MPAA has rented the black helicopters. They're gonna come to your house, smash in your door, and take your HD player.
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It seems that both is basically security through obscurity, and that has not worked very well in the future.
Ahh, I see you have already attended the time travel seminar that will be held in two weeks.
"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
It seems that both is basically security through obscurity, and that has not worked very well in the future.
So tell me.. was Duke Nukem Forever worth the wait?
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I just read a story on the front page titled "Kremlin Seeks to Control Online Media."
/. )
(And yes, when I say "read" I mean "saw the headline of." I said it's
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I am pretty sure the correct word is "breach." Not "breech."
Good, haven't met anyone who has seen that movie before I turned them to it.
Wasn't it hella good for being indie? Shame that I hate to talk about it so that others around me don't catch spoilers, but to find out that he had been going around so many times without anybody else knowing . . . took me totally by surprise
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it has rolled the boulder up the hill.
Soo... Basically they haven't learned anything?
They can hire all the tech-guru-security-experts they want, they still won't me smarter than the collective curiosity of the rest of the world. As such, any implementation of DRM in on a wide scale is futile!
And the result, well, take itunes for example, where the customers has the choise of either paying for a bad product or go otherwhere and fetch a better one for free...
2. Hiding the key is easy, but I don't know how useful it really is.
Here are some ideas on how I would do it:
1. Instead of calling a standard AES routine that needs the bytes of the key to be in successive memory locations, recode the routine to take bits of the key from different areas of memory.
2. Suppose (to simplify) that we combine a player key (PK) (that we want to hide) with a disc key (DK)(on the disc) to produce a media key (MK). Then we combine an encrypted sector (ES) with the media key (MK) to produce a decrypted sector (DS). Suppose (for illustration) that keys are 256 bits and blocks 4096 bits long.
I would follow these steps: write a single function f(DK, ES) = DS in a simple algebraic language. PK exists as constants in the function body. With a preprocessor, convert this function into 4096 boolean functions of 4352 inputs and output C code to compute their minimal disjunctive form. Recovering PK is equivalent to brute-forcing AES.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Someone just has to write a ps3 cell code to do the key guessing just like folding@home, 100,000 pirates, and whammo, it would be cracked really fast , maybe 24hrs. Ironically, that the device player to
make bluray popular could be used to actually crack the keys the fastest.
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"Ayers said future assaults by hackers can be similarly fixed by replacing compromised keys with new ones."
:(
They're going to have to institute an MS-like "patch Tuesday" to issue new keys.
On the down side, I'm going to have to wait until the weekend before the HDDVD hackers break the new scheme and resume their regular distribution schedule.
IIRC the AACS scheme works a lot like a certificate authority. What they are doing is that on new discs they will add the old InterVideo key to the revocation list. Then compliant players will read and obey the revocation list and not play if their key show up on the list.
Wouldn't the far superior hack then be to hack the player program/firmware in such a way that it simply disregards the KRL?
Could someone with more AACS-fu then I please enlighten me on that one?
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Actually, all HD DVD players are required by the spec to have an ethernet port. Therefore, you won't need a PC to download the latest firmware for the player.
BD doesn't have the requirement, although I believe they're starting to require it now. No idea what that does for the current crop of players though...
Instead, it's about hiding data in such a way that it would take so much time and so much computer resource to break the encryption code to the point where it becomes impractical to even try doing it in the first place. In practical terms, for a specific encryption algorythm, it might, for example, be estimated that it would take 1 man on 1 PC up to 8000 years of continual effort to break a particular encryption algorithm.
However, get 2 men on 2 PCs working together, it'll take up to 4000 years to break it.
4 men on 4 PCs will take about 2000 years to break it.
etc.
Based on that assumption, I give your encryption keys 1 year at the most.
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please, please, please, don't join the AACS group...
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We have fixed the problem this time.
No, seriously, we did... Really.
So, unless some miscreant goes out and breaks something, yes, it is fixed.
Hackers of the world: It ain't broke, so please don't be taking it apart to find out why. Please! The fact that you can't watch movies you paid for on the equipment you own is a design feature. Please don't meddle with it, it will only make more work for us.
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Good security is based upon reality and common sense. Common sense is a function of having common knowledge.
I'd like to elaborate on point 2. Being able to extract the key is not that important. If you can extract the key, you can use it as input in your stock implementation of the decryption algorithm. But if the decryption module is so obfuscated that you cannot find the key (I gave an example on how to do just that), you can just do what keygen authors do: take the whole decryption module and reproduce it in your code, even if you don't really understand what it does. That's why, as the parent pointed out, obfuscation simply doesn't work.
Of course this will be moot when Trusted Computing will be used. Because then, the combination of your custom code and the decryption module that you stole from the player won't be signed, and thus won't be authorized to read the disk or use the display (at full resolution).
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Chuckleheads.
"It's so convenient to have a system where everyone is a criminal" - A. Hitler
The really professional pirates have access to the same mastering facilities that the legit companies do.
I don't read AC A human right
"It seems that both is basically security through obscurity, and that has not worked very well in the future."
So tell me.. was Duke Nukem Forever worth the wait?
I don't think their time travel device can go that far into the future yet.
Read the comments for the article you linked to. The author gets torn to shreds by people with actual knowledge of Vista.
Way to miss the point, M$ defender Macthrope. You can keep Vista and all of it's restrictions but no one else is going to want them and their sales are going to go the same place the major music publisher's sales have gone. There, people continue to purchase CDs and avoid DRM'd content. When they sabotaged CDs too, they really screwed up. Their sales have been falling by 20% a year for years.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Yeah, I used to think that ripping DVD was for folks who knew computers and were geeks. That was until I worked on a few barely computer literate people's computers and found ripping software! It gets better, while my SO was buying a DVD she'd found cheap at a grocery store the clerk running the checkout starts to tell her all about how to rent and RIP DVDs - then goes so far as to tell her it's perfectly legal! He even told her what software to use - she was pretty amused and just nodded while he went on and on about it. My point is - the folks who don't live computers are doing this in amazing numbers.
:-)
Now we're talking High Def DVD and people still want that content. They have just forced a bunch of folks to patch their software. Meanwhile the guys on the Doom9 forums have hacked the HD DVD firmware for the XBOX 360 such that it ignores half the scheme and coughs up the Volume keys. http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=124294 Whoops. People will soon be flashing their drives to decrypt the media all over again. What are they going to do, revoke drives in mass? Do they think this SAME thing won't be done to Blu Ray and other hardware? The last time around they even shared keys between Blu Ray and HD DVD pressings, talk about one key to rule them all! Slysoft even released a commercial product to rip the new media...
So what do they think will happen with HD content that's ANY different than with standard DVDs? If someone can hack existing firmware to avoid these keys then what stops an offshore manufacturer from simply producing such a drive? You might have to hit a few buttons on the remote to activate it but you can bet it will happen. the biggest thing slowing it down right now i shear size of the content - 20Gigs and an hour's worth of time to rip it is going to put off a few folks I'll bet. Where are those 1TB drives being released again?
The consumers will speak - this sucker is toast. It won't be long before simply buying a fake on a streetcorner or downloading from a torrent is FAR less trouble than buying the real thing.
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The expensive DVD player from Sony now sits in the kitchen and occasionally plays a normal music CD, when there is nothing in the FM worth listening to.
So, runnning 24/7/365, how long does a Sony DVD player work?
retail stores like best buy, circuit city, walmart, and others their huge weight against havening to deal with returns, pissed off customers and so on.
And havering a no return policy will not cut when people say I just payed for this and it does not work, I have to pay for the internet just to see a movie, It does not work with dial up internet, I can't get high speed internet so this HD-DVD / Blue-Ray player is useless to me, and so on, I tried to do a firmware update and it failed and now the player does not work at all,
The player says I need a tv with HDMI / HDCP 1.3 and I just got a new HD tv not that long ago, What is a firmware update? The people at walmart likely will have no clue about that one.
Simply stated, the music industry derives income from royalty. As licensing is hooked deeply into all media and marketing, it is impossible to participate in today's ecomony without some of your money going to the music industry.
Stopping CD purchases will not put them out of business. You'd have to stop buying ANYTHING advertised on radio. You could never spend money in a store that plays music. You could never eat in a restaurant that has music playing in the background. You can never go to any nightclub -- you might be able to justify going when an unsigned live band plays original tunes, but the club itself still has an ASCAP license to finance. You couldn't use a VISA or Mastercard, or any service that advertises. In fact, you'd have to drop out completely to perform the boycott.
I doubt slowing CD and DVD sales put a major dent in their income. It's just that they fear losing control, for the loss of the retail segment demonstrates people are realizing how badly overpriced music is, and the licensees might be the next to realize this. And that would be the end of one of the most lucrative easy-money gravy trains in history.
Nevermind, we all know the answer already.
Copyright infringement is "piracy" in the same way DRM is "consumer rape"
That is true, until they finally close the "analog" hole and encrypt ALL traffic in and out of your computer to ALL devices. ( yes, that is decades out, but dont doubt they are not slowly heading that way, step by step )
Then only custom hardare ( which most people could never come up with ) could decrypt then something.. But then it would not have the proper encryption and would not play anyway.
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I've seen something similar to your method used; generated code which ran the steps of decryption for a particular key, rather than using a decryption key which accepted a key.
I scratched my head a while trying to recover the key. Then I thought about writing an emulator to run the function. Then I realized the obvious: I had the function right there. I didn't need to recover the key, or emulate the function. I merely needed to call it and the magic black box would do the decryption for me. Problem solved.
Same with your system. If the Player Key is hidden as code, the cracker extracts the code and uses it directly to decrypt the sectors (or, more likely, an intermediate key).
I wanted to like Primer, and from the description it sounded pretty good. While there were a few nice things about it, I was bored out of my mind for a lot of the movie. I don't need a lot of whiz-bang effects or top-billed actors, but I do need to be able to stay awake!
1. Keep the data in CPU registers and cache.
2. Split the keys up into smaller pieces, and spread them around when in memory.
1. Impossible, without incredibly slow decryption. The x86_64 chips *might* have enough registers to do AES with lots of extra computation, but all the fast (e.g. more than 1MB/sec) algorithms use a large key schedule that is directly derived from the key. Heck, with some SSE hacks it might even be possible for generic x86_32 processors to keep the key in registers. Additionally, it would be apparent that the key is being stored in the registers because it could not be disguised very easily.
2. Slightly more doable, by moving and "disguising" (probably XORing with constants) the key schedule it could be forced to never exist entirely as plaintext in memory, so the crackers would have to do a little bit of time analysis to figure out when to grab parts of the key schedule. It's still going to be incredibly difficult because every 16 byte block of ciphertext requires every byte of key schedule to decrypt it. Given the massive amount of data streaming from the disc, the player is going to sit in two main areas: AES decryption and MPEG decoding. MPEG decoding takes up the majority of the time, but AES will be a very noticeable percentage, and probably easy to identify because of the table lookups that are necessary. After the code is identified, it's obvious how to get the original key back, because it forms the first 16 bytes of the key schedule.
An interesting solution would be to find a mathematically equivalent algorithm for AES that uses different lookup table constants and a different key schedule. It would probably not be very hard to do, maybe requiring an extra prestage and afterstage to put things right. That could take a little while to figure out, but again because of the time spent decrypting it would probably be relatively obvious where the code was, and when it didn't look like AES the hackers would know to look for the fudging to figure out how to reverse it. It might just take a hacker who's good at linear algebra.
The real solution the media companies are aiming for is to skip the software players and have the video card act as a secure player, handling the AES and MPEG in hardware and using HDCP to talk directly to a "secure" monitor. That will basically close the digital hole, because the only place to get the plaintext signal would be at the interface cable going into the LCD panel. If they can get the drive to talk directly to the video card for key exchange, that cuts the main PC out of the loop entirely, meaning that special hardware would be required just to read the data off the disc.
But there will have to be a way for Treacherous Computing hardware to be converted into a general-purpose computer, or it will not be able to run the latest GNU system after FSF starts distributing new versions of GNU under the GPLv3 family of licenses. There's still a strong demand for at least server hardware that runs a GNU user space and/or other GPL and LGPL covered software.
Viacom owns Dreamworks. Not Sony.
;-) I have the box in my hand right now. I wish I could scan the back and post the logos..
Maybe I have a pirated copy then..
Lower left corner on the back.. COLUMBIA PICTURES
Lower right corner on the back.. SONY PICTURES Home Entertainment
Just left of the SONY PICTURES.. www.SonyPictures.com
Following the link..
http://www.sonypictures.com/ Open Season is right on the main page "OPEN SEASON
Go wild with official mobile downloads from the animated tale."
Viacom may own it, but it's SONY who is distributing it. I blame them for the defective by design distribution.
The truth shall set you free!
Ah, you're right ... Dreamworks doesn't do everything in-house, especially Dreamworks Animation.
And Sony is of course is the biggest force behind AACS and all things DRM-related.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
At what point does blacklisting so many keys on the disc take up too much space??