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Humans are the weakest link: HDCP Master Key Confirmed; Blu-Ray Was Cracked, but now you can remove rights management for HDCP sources

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/18

The human factor is always the weakest link in any rights management: HDCP Master Key Confirmed; Blu-Ray Has Been Cracked.

–jeroen

Via: HDCP Master Key Confirmed; Blu-Ray Has Been Cracked | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.

2 Responses to “Humans are the weakest link: HDCP Master Key Confirmed; Blu-Ray Was Cracked, but now you can remove rights management for HDCP sources”

  1. The title of the linked article is misleading. Blu-ray content encoding was already cracked. This master key is for the HDCP encoding used in HDMI interfaces. It allows for the removal of rights management from non-Blu-ray sources, such as live streams. Interestingly, an Intel spokesperson asserted that HDCP doesn’t need to be cryptographically secure; it is enough, he said, that some attempt at encryption is made in order to allow the use of DMCA takedowns.

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