The high-def digital media has been freed, for better or worse.
High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection, which is more commonly known abbreviated as HDCP, has been confirmed by Intel as cracked.
HDCP, which is the DRM scheme for HD hardware such as HDTV, cable boxes and Blu-ray Disc players is exposed and wide open for those who wish to bypass it. More specifically, the master key that is used for encryption is floating around on the internet freely for anyone who wishes to make use of it.
"We can use it to generate valid device keys that do interoperate with the (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) protocol," Intel spokesman Tom Waldrop told Cnet.
"What we have confirmed through testing is that you can derive keys for devices from this published material that do work with the keys produced by our security technology," he told FoxNews.
Intel doesn't seem too stressed over the defeat of HDCP, however, as the current scheme still stands to be an inconvenience to all those other than the most dedicated.
"For someone to use this information to unlock anything, they would have to implement it in silicon -- make a computer chip," he added. "As a practical matter, that's a difficult and costly thing to do."
Even tombs can be had....Lara Croft, Tomb Raider!
Most people will never know and Intel understand that if there is a lock, eventually, someone will find they way to open it.
Even tombs can be had....Lara Croft, Tomb Raider!
Total cost of dev kit cost will be around $100 plus ~$30 for the FPGC+DSP chip, suct as Analog Devices Blackfin. Anyone who has enough math+programming knowledge to use this key can easily program these chips too.
maybe this is true for dedicated HW devices but not for PCs.
Better HDTV rips? That's why Intel isn't freaking out about it. Nothing changes.
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Yeah. Or wait until someone starts selling mod-chips and instructions on how to install them.
Oh and if it's leaked, maybe the leaker was on crack when he pasted the key on-line so we can still say "It was cracked"
For a little while I HAD to get cracking software to strip my legally owned Blurays of DRM because I had a HDMI cable that was not "HDCP Compliant". Naturally, there was nothing wrong with the cable - it plays BDs flawlessly.
Now that I got a new HDMI cable, I still get my HTPC is not "HDCP Compliant" every now and then even though ever item, wire, and device I have is HDCP compliant. It is very aggravating!
Well it only takes one of those "most dedicated" and enough upload speed that the result is being spread all over the net.
I have no idea why they even bother creating these content encryption schemes, they have been and they will always be cracked. Just a waste of engineer's time.
If it has been made by man, they will be cracked by man, 100% guaranteed.