HD DVD protection bypassed

I’m talking about the HD-DVD’s AACS Protection. The Advanced Access Content System is a standard for content distribution and digital rights management, which will allow restricting access to and copying of the next generation of optical discs and DVDs. Quite a fancy name, nothing to say about it. But it got cracked, in 8 days by a hacker that calls himself Muslix64.

The HD-DVD protection was initially considered unbreakable, and in his ambition, Muslix64 planned a month’s worth of hard work to break it. The surprise was the fact that he succeeded in only 8 days. That’s four times less than expected.

It seems that he considered the protection system as being unfair with the consumers.

when I realized the 2 software players on windows don’t allowed me to play the movie at all, because my video card is not HDCP compliant and because I have a HD monitor plugged with DVI interface, I started to get mad… This is not what we can call “fair use”! So I decide to decrypt that movie. I start reading the AACS specification I have found on the net. I estimate it will take me about 4 weeks of full time job to decrypt that. I was wrong, it was in fact, easy..

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Posted in Hardware by Bogdan Boghiu