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Post by ShadowJon on Dec 29, 2006 9:21:21 GMT 6
Full article at... www.techtree.com/India/News/Took_Eight_Days_to_Crack_HD_DVD/551-78152-581.htmlLatest reports indicate that the much touted Gen-Next HD DVD format is not invincible after all... The story doing the rounds is that a hacker who goes under the name, "Muslix64" was upset at not being able to view his HD movies on his computer set-up, and as such, set himself a seemingly impossible goal - that of cracking the AACS specification in four weeks. He ended up doing so - in just eight days. Apparently, the dude went about the ordained task quite meticulously. He first bought himself a HD-DVD drive to plug onto his PC, plus a HD movie. Somewhere down the line, the realization dawned upon him that he could not play the HD flick simply because his video card was not HDCP compliant, and he had a HD monitor plugged with a DVI interface. What "Muslix64" did next was to complain to the doom9 forum about the AACS specification, saying it was not at all fair for someone to own an HD monitor and then not be able to watch an HD movie that had been paid for. The result: in six days' time, the title key of the flick appeared in Muslix64's memory, which meant that he had managed to decrypt the movie in all but one afternoon. Not counting the one day that he spent fixing problems such as frame skipping, etc, it took "Muslix64" but eight days to crack code.
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Post by sanjoy on Dec 29, 2006 10:16:36 GMT 6
brilliant.. that means soon they will be avail for dload... way to go black hats
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Post by Prince on Dec 29, 2006 14:26:54 GMT 6
It wasnt cracked, it was merely hacked. Read the article well. The problem lies with the software as the encryption key is there in the memory. Just a fix to it will solve it. As of now the encryption is still not cracked.
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Post by Altaïr47 on Jan 22, 2007 11:30:47 GMT 6
www.engadget.com/2007/01/20/blu-ray-cracked-too/Blu-ray cracked too?It's still early on to tell whether this is actually true, but HD DVD cracker muslix64 is back, and with the help of another anti-DRM cracker, Janvitos, claims to have also broken the Blu-ray's implementation of AACS. Although their protection does not yet account for BD+ copy-protection, they claim to have been able to implement the same key-grabbing known-plaintext attack as muslix64 used to crack HD DVD in order to successfully to crack Blu-ray without even using a disc or drive (apparently they just used a raw encrypted data file and nothing more). Unfortunately they haven't yet posted code for us to test this out, so we'll have to take their word for it for the time being.
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Post by sanjoy on Jan 22, 2007 13:22:51 GMT 6
HD movie are now abail on torrents
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