Quote:
|
Originally Posted by AChimp
I'm willing to bet that it gets cracked within 72 hours of being first released to the public. Didn't it take that Denmark guy a little over 11 hours to break the DVD encryption, while Sony spent years (and millions of dollars) developing it?
|
The DVD encryption was broken primary because of a company calling Xing; they forgot to encrypt the decoder in their DVD viewing software. Oops. The guy then, by trial and error, figured out over 140 other keys (There were about 550 different keys that are licensed to different companies last I checked). So, the code would have most likely been broken eventually, but this company screwing up certainly accelerated it.
Which brings me to another issue. Because of the US laws banning the distribution of high level encryption (particularly 128-bit), DVD are only encrypted at around 54- or 56-bits. Certainly within the realm of a brute force attack.