Hackers discover HD DVD and Blu-ray "processing key" -- all HD titles now exposed
Those cooky kids over at the Doom9 forums hate themselves some DRM. Not more than two months after discovering a means to extract the HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc "volume keys" to decrypt AACS DRM on individual films, we're now getting word that DRM hacker arnezami has found the "processing key" used to decrypt the DRM on all HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc films. Let's break this down for what it is: instead of needing individual keys for each and every high-definition film -- of which there are many -- the processing key can be used to unlock, decrypt, and backup every HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc film released so far. As arnezami points out, "nothing was actually hacked, cracked or even reverse engineered." All he had to do was keep an eye on his memory, watch what changed, and voila... the processing key appeared. So kick back and watch the trickle of HD titles hitting the torrents quickly turn into a flood (at ~20GB a pop, that's not an exaggeration) when the BackupHDDVD and BackupBluray utilities (or AnyDVD HD?) are updated to reflect the new [Thanks, Eric L]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
venk @ Feb 13th 2007 9:23AM
The only people Hollywood can prevent from watching their movies are legitimate, paying customers.
N @ Feb 13th 2007 9:29AM
NICE!!!!!!
tranzparentl @ Feb 13th 2007 10:13AM
nice, this will just help spread adoption of the formats.
Dave @ Feb 13th 2007 10:50AM
True!
KissTheRing @ Feb 13th 2007 11:21AM
Awesome the format war is now over, for me it is at least, I'm buying a mac mini to hook up to my HDTV to play all those sure to come HD torrent movies.
Ryan @ Feb 13th 2007 12:06PM
Maybe someone could compress them down to 480p so the torrents would smaller to download. =P
Joel Purvis @ Mar 15th 2007 10:00PM
480p= DVD quality. Those torrents are already out. Sorta defeats the purpose of breaking HD encryption, dontcha think?
Andy @ Feb 13th 2007 1:21PM
"processing key"???
You mean they found the software players private key. Yea the key that AACS is in the process of revoking? yea thats soon to be useless.
mike @ Feb 13th 2007 6:07PM
im not adopting to hd-dvd untill they come out with a simple hd-dvd dycrptor type program. Theres no way in hell im ever buying a real hd-dvd at the prices their at (I dont even buy regular dvds because their too expensive, only sometimes I buy them if I see them going for $10 or less and its an old classic.)
Bigglare @ Feb 13th 2007 9:38PM
The point is even if they revoke the key, they know how to find the next key. Since theres only a few models of players out. AACS doesnt dare revoke the key that will shut down pretty much every existing bluray or HDDVD player.
DEATH TO ICT! HDTV Early Adopters REJOICE. Component connections are free at last!
Xyzzy @ Feb 14th 2007 8:22AM
"DEATH TO ICT! HDTV Early Adopters REJOICE. Component connections are free at last!"
Yeah, except HD-DVD doesn't do ICT right now...
zbender @ Feb 13th 2007 11:23PM
How long until there are t-shirts on CafePress with:
"09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0"
printed on them?
Or people with that string as a tattoo?
Josh @ Feb 14th 2007 9:29AM
"Awesome the format war is now over, for me it is at least, I'm buying a mac mini to hook up to my HDTV to play all those sure to come HD torrent movies."
I doubt it is powerful enough to play them.
bloodhound @ Mar 13th 2007 9:33PM
all right. :p