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New AACS Crack Called "Undefeatable"

Posted by kdawson on from the go-ahead-revoke-all-the-keys dept.

Tuoqui writes "With all the focus on the infamous hexadecimal number, people may be ignoring a bigger weakness in the AACS armor, which emerged two weeks ago. Some hackers have figured out how to crack AACS in a way that cannot be defeated, even by revoking all the keys in circulation."

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  1. FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fust psot!

  2. OT the digg revolt by Sark666 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I wanted to show a friend what happened on digg, and went back a few days and can barely find any of the hd dvd key stories. I know kevin rose posted that entry saying they basically give up, and the users have spoken kind of thing, but at the same time it seems all those additional stories are gone as well.

  3. So I am a Troll eh? by ushering05401 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Think about this for a second.

    I didn't post a single negative comment about cracking DRM. There are simply more important things to be discussing than our access to privatley generated content such as movies.

    But forgive me. The first thing I read upon waking up was that gunmen had siezed hostages in Nigeria, my congress was folding over the Iraq withdrawal, and certain drugs commonly prescribed to menopausal women were significant contributors to cancer.

    Why am I modded Troll for thinking that having access to movies is really an insignificant issue? I wasn't even disrespectful. Then again, I have liked very few things Hollywood has produced anytime recently.

    Regards.

    1. Re:So I am a Troll eh? by NitroWolf · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Of course you are a troll. You are on a technology forum (Or did the "News for Nerds" confuse you?) and you're in a topic about AACS and you're trying to talk about politics and shit totally unrelated to the topic. That's trolling. You want to start a discussion on an irrelevant topic by using inflammatory wording about what's supposedly "important" and what isn't. Of course, what's important is YOUR definition of it... so yes, that's the definition of a troll and you have been modded appropriately.

    2. Re:So I am a Troll eh? by rueger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      That's why I read Wonkette first, then Slashdot second!

      At least at Wonkette the editors can distinguish between fact and fiction... and they understand simple English grammar.

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      Three Squirrels
  4. Undefeatable Crack? by slughead · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wesley Willis' mother will be overjoyed!

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  5. crack? by wilson316 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Crack is wack!

  6. Re:Undefeatable? by j-turkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We're talking about 16^32 here, slick. That's: (16 possible hex digits) * (16 possible hex digits) * ... (to 32 places).

    Don't they teach counting in college anymore?

    Thanks chief ;). I was thinking of a 32-bit key. I stand corrected.

    And who ever said that I have a college edjakashun?

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    -Turkey