Re: Color the moon

[ross <gloverw@bc.edu>]

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hey,

for the more or less computationally illiterate of us, could someone
explain what the hell the breaking of the DVD compression code means?

it would be much appreciated,

ross

thelabs@hushmail.com wrote:
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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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