{"id":373,"date":"2006-12-28T21:58:48","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T05:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/aacs-cracked-finally\/"},"modified":"2006-12-28T21:58:48","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T05:58:48","slug":"aacs-cracked-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/aacs-cracked-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"AACS “Cracked”, Finally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several people have pointed me to the news that claims of cracking AACS (the content protection system protecting both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs) have been leveled. Here is a doom9 thread on the matter<\/a>. My first reaction was, “What took so long?” Conceptually, it should have been pretty straightforward to understand the entire system and recover secret keys since technical documents on the matter are quite openly available. I always considered that rather odd since a large part of DRM’s efficacy hinges on obscurity.<\/p>\n

Good news, nonetheless, if it’s accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several people have pointed me to the news that claims of cracking AACS (the content protection system protecting both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs) have been leveled. Here is a doom9 thread on the matter. My first reaction was, “What took so long?” Conceptually, it should have been pretty straightforward to understand the entire system and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t