Ars Technica reports that a new volume key which has been issued to replace the one that was cracked earlier this month and which is being used in DVDs to be released for sale next week has been cracked using a beta version of SlySoft's AnyDVD HD program and early release previews of The Matrix trilogy.
Here's the article http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070517-latest-aacs-revision-defeated-a-week-before-release.html This is the same link in preview tinyurl form: http://preview.tinyurl.com/2zl4gv I know that there is nothing technologically new or interesting about this crack, but it does add a certain emphasis to the arguments for the futility of DRM, seeing systems cracked before they are released. What does it do to Ed Felten's model when C drops below 0? (reference Hal Finney's post to this list about two weeks ago http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/10065) -- Sidney Markowitz http://www.sidney.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]