AACS Copy Protection Cracked?
By Alexander Grundner |
December 29th, 2006
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A loan cracker by the name of muslix64 is claiming that he has figured out a way to side-skirt HD DVD’s AACS copy protection (and possibly Blu-ray’s as well) by sniffing out the title’s encryption key from the PC’s memory. By doing so, users of his new BackupHDDVD java-based software application are now able to make exact unencrypted copies of any high-def movie (via DMT). There’s one catch, AACS, in Reg Harware‘s words, “adds techniques for ditching compromised keys…. Keys can be tweaked to force users to update their software if they want to be able to play future titles.” However, it seems to me that if the software is able to passively read the key from memory and then rip an unencrypted copy, I don’t see how AACS will detect the compromise – but then again I’m not a software engineer. In any case, keep your eyes and ears open for further developments. Also check out muslix64‘s video demo below for more gloating.
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