> However, the keys are embedded in the HDCP-enabled DVI/HDMI chips. > If you don't sign the license agreement, you don't get officially > generated, signed keys. Even if you could get a vendor to sell > you chips, what keys would they contain? The vendor certainly isn't > going to sell you chips containing Sony's key, for instance. > Even if the vendor were to allow you to generate your own key and > have chips made with it, or you made the chips yourself, they > would be useless. Since your key wouldn't be signed by the > HDCP licensing authority, the chips wouldn't interoperate with real HDCP > products. > This makes it difficult to get said keys but not impossible.
All you'd need is to open the chip and apply a fairly powerful microscope to it. I think you can see the state of flash or PROM gates, and even if not, nothing's stopping you from probing it. This increases the barrier, but does not remove it. --Russeoll _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
