In 1999, Felix von Leitner published an article claiming that the consortium that had devised it could not have done anything
In 1999, Felix von Leitner published an article claiming that the consortium that had devised it could not have done anything more wrong than it had. Kevin Weinstein and MarcHorowitz at MIT broke it with just 7 lines of Perl code, defeating its scheme of encrypting a session key with 408 randomly generated player keys. The intial key used to break it came from a reverse- engineering of the Xing player, which took at most 17 hours on a single computer, and within days it was found that the hash value of the key can be used to retreive the key itself, making it useless. First reported as having been cracked by Jon Johansen, FTP, identify this failed encryption scheme for DVDs.
In 1999, Felix von Leitner published an article claiming that the consortium that had devised it could not have done anything more wrong than it had.
Content Scrambling System