[mythtv-users] AACS Cracked Already

Marco Nelissen marcone at xs4all.nl
Sun Jan 28 06:01:05 UTC 2007


>>From what I understand it hasn't. What has happened
>>was they managed to pull the keys out of memory while
>>using one of the legal playback software. Apparently
>>some of the keys don't require to be encrypted in
>>memory by the standard, so they aren't, and they are
>>enough to get working playback/rip.
>
>Although the encryption wasn't cracked, the AACS
>system, which also addresses issues of player and
>drive security, most definitely was cracked!

No, it wasn't. Some keys have been compromised. That's
quite different from cracking AACS itself.


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