Color the moon

From thelabs@hushmail.com
Date Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:39:46 -0600 (PDT)


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I thought this maybe of some interest here.
The whole idea behind this is that we are lead to believe DVD is state of 
the art.
When infact this is old hat, on a smaller scale.
Exposed and no doubt afraid they will try to surpress this info.
Where better to post it then to an activist list?
If I am out of line or off topic dont hesitate to cry out.

-ethan
(maddened geek with an attention defisat...........shit, what was i saying?)


>Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 01:39:37 -0400
>Subject: Fwd:CSS broken
>From: "ethan" <crypto@disinfo.net>
>To: thelabs@hushmail.com
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:54:17 +0200 (CEST) Frank Andrew Stevenson <frank@funcom.com> 
wrote:
>Monday sourcecode for the CSS algorithm was released
>through an anonymous remailer. CSS is the encryption algoritm
>used on DVD movies, and it was supected that it was weak
>beyond just having a 40 bit key. Yesterday I found it to
>be vulnerable to a trivial 2^16 attack with as little
>as 6 bytes of known plaintext.
>
>I posted the details on:
>http://livid.on.openprojects.net/pipermail/livid-dev/1999-October/000589.html
> 
>  frank
>
>This sentence is unique in this respect; it can safely
>be attributed to my employer, Funcom Oslo AS.
>E3D2BCADBEF8C82F A5891D2B6730EA1B PGPmail preferred, finger for key
>There is no place like N59 50.558' E010 50.870'. (WGS84)

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