Wednesday, December 27, 2006
HD DVD Hacked?
Related Entries: Hacks & Mods
Someone on the AVS Forum posted a link to this video on YouTube. It was was uploaded on Dec 18th by Muslix64, a 26yr old Canadian. Apparently, he has
He writes:“AACS is unbreakable” is the title of the video and the total running time is 2:16. The author claims that it’s not about the software (which is written in Java), but it’s all about a config file — TKDB.cfg. It looks like there is some kind of hash keys for each crackable HD DVD title. What do you guys think… is this video real or fake? I just downloaded the source… I’ll see if it works.
“I was not aware of anyone having done that, so I did.
Have a look.
The AACS copy protection system is realy Unbreakable!
The program is a simple implementation of the aacs crypto protocol freely available on the net.
No reverse engineering!
Stay tuned for source code soon!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Source now avaiable at:
http://rapidshare.com/files/8318838/BackupHDDVD.zip.html
Update: It looks like it should work… the hard part is getting the “Title Keys”.
The author writes:
-How do you extract the “Title keys”?
I won’t explain it in detail. Read the AACS doc first. You will understand. The title keys are located on the disk in encrypted form, but for a content to be played, it has to be decrypted! So where is the decrypted version of the title key? Think about it…
Update 2:
Chris Lanier says, “No, AACS Was Not Cracked”.
YouTube - “AACS is unbreakable”
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COMMENTS
Posted by Tom at December 29, 2006 5:05 AM
My congratulations to Muslix64 !
They make an important contribution for freedom,
and show the stupidity of the industry.
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