Scwible Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Hackers discover HD DVD and Blu-ray "processing key" -- all HD titles now exposed Posted Feb 13th 2007 7:46AM by Thomas Ricker Filed under: HDTV Those cooky kids over at the Doom9 forums hate themselves some DRM. Not more than two months after discovering a means to extract the HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc "volume keys" to decrypt AACS DRM on individual films, we're now getting word that DRM hacker arnezami has found the "processing key" used to decrypt the DRM on all HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc films. Let's break this down for what it is: instead of needing individual keys for each and every high-definition film -- of which there are many -- the processing key can be used to unlock, decrypt, and backup every HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc film released so far. As arnezami points out, "nothing was actually hacked, cracked or even reverse engineered." All he had to do was keep an eye on his memory, watch what changed, and voila... the processing key appeared. So kick back and watch the trickle of HD titles hitting the torrents quickly turn into a flood (at ~20GB a pop, that's not an exaggeration) when the BackupHDDVD and BackupBluray utilities (or AnyDVD HD) are updated to reflect the new hack find. http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/hackers...g-key-all-hd-t/ HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc Copy Protection Fully Hacked By: César A. Berardini - "Cesar" Feb. 14th, 2007 8:00 am Back in December of last year, when I reported that HD DVD encryption was hacked, some readers said I was wrong about such affirmation and that the AACS protection system was not compromised. Well smartasses, eat your words now! The first hack by muslix64, BackupHDDVD, allowed a user to copy a HD DVD movie only if the encryption key for that specific title was known. Considering that the same AACS technology used in HD DVD movies is the same one used on Blu-ray Disc titles, a similar utility to BackupHDDVD was released afterwards, allowing users to copy Blu-ray Disc films. But it was always necessary to know an encryption key for the movie. Well, now that restrain will be a thing of the past. Only three months after HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc launched, a hacker by the name of Arnezami has found the processing key used to decrypt ALL HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc movies. No longer it is needed an individual encryption key per title, this new crack provides a media key, a processing key and the volume ID that allow any HD DVD or Blu-ray Disc film to be copied backed up. In less than 48 hours since the hack was released, SlySoft has announced it is working on a spiritual successor to AnyDVD and CloneDVD that will allow the back-up of any HD DVD movie. Even more, the utility will automatically remove annoying messages such as the FBI warning. So there you have it. AACS has been completely hacked. It’s game over. http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/12780/HD-DVD...n-Fully-Hacked/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsideirish71 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 (edited) Social Engineering overcomes a multi million dollar development effort. What a shocker. The problem with this type of encryption is that it has to be relatively static for it to work on these types of platforms. You get a few smart people, a lot of spare time and enough processing power and they can crack this type of encryption. Edited February 14, 2007 by southsideirish71 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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