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Status: U Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:47:44 -0700 From: "Jon O ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Microsoft DRM2 cracked, source code released Reply-To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Id: Friends of Rohit Khare <fork.xent.com> Subject: [DMCA_discuss] Microsoft DRM2 cracked, source code released To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:20:30 -0700 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22354.html The author's zipped file contains a lengthy description of the MS DRM weaknesses, a philosophical tract explaining why he thinks it necessary to crack, the source code, and the command-line utility. The alias Beale Screamer, incidentally, derives from the lines of 'Howard Beale' in the movie 'Network', we're told. "Just yell to the publishers 'I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!'" ... ---------------------------------- http://jya.com/ms-drm.htm Found this on sci.crypt today. It's an interesting piece of research which will most likely be stomped soon by MS using DMCA or similar. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Microsoft DRM - Technical description Date: 18 Oct 2001 16:06:50 -0000 From: Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.binaries.net Newsgroups: sci.crypt Microsoft's Digital Rights Management Scheme - Technical Details By "Beale Screamer" ... http://jya.com/ms-drm.htm _______________________________________________ ------------------------ http://www.anti-dmca.org ------------------------ DMCA_discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.microshaft.org/mailman/listinfo/dmca_discuss ---------- http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
