Heard this mentioned on This Week in Tech, and finally got around to reading it. Ed Felten is discussing how easy it's going to be to break HDCP, which is how high-def digital signals are supposed to be copy protected on its way to your monitor in HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. Apparently, the HDCP designers (due to some design restrictions) used too-simple math to combine the keys, which in turn will make it easy to brute-force solve the private key identities. Or something like that. Anyhow, maybe I'll buy a HD-DVD or Blu-Ray player once an offshore hack deals with the copy protection... it looks very likely to happen given this article.
Freedom to Tinker Blog Archive Making and Breaking HDCP Handshakes
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