[Jonathan Sundy @ Feb 13th 2007 8:21AM]

This is awesome haha.... though it took me 2 weeks to download an hd-dvd so I don't really envision this as the end of the retail market for them. (It's nice to learn your computer is or isn't fast enough to decrypt them without dropping the $)


Lets be fair though, DVD John CRACKED dvds, he broke the algorithm used to decrypt them.
Here they have only revealed a flaw in the implementation, they have not cracked AACS. All they did was show how shitty some well paid programmers really are. Funny stuff.

Can this key be revoked or are they totally screwed?

[Tim Fischer @ Feb 13th 2007 8:45AM]

This development will devastate the movie industry. George Lucas says he doesn't want to make movies anymore..would rather make short films for tv. No one will want to sink millions of dollars making a full length movie if it's stolen.

Think about what the actions of a few will do to the masses. Say goodbye to new full length movies.

So long blu-ray...see you later HD DVD.

[Brendor @ Feb 13th 2007 1:43PM]

Well if you remember, Jon Johanson was aided in hacking CSS by the fact that US crypto export laws in the 90s prevented exporting encryption higher than 40 bit. CSS was developed with the international market in mind and thus could be brute forced in a much more reasonable amount of time than if it had used 128 bit encryption. I think that's was a flaw in the implementation too.