Re: CSS authentication for DVD-ROMs

1999-10-27 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Sean Eric Fagan wrote ... > >Given the recent posting of DVD movie decryption code (see Slashdot > >for details), I was wondering if there was interest for code that > >does CSS authentication for DVD-ROM drives. > > I looked at the slashdot posts, and was surprised (I guess) to see that nobod

Re: CSS authentication for DVD-ROMs

1999-10-27 Thread Syam Gadde
Quoting Sean Eric Fagan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I looked at the slashdot posts, and was surprised (I guess) to see that nobody > seems to know about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Part of which makes > it a copyright violation (at $2500/copy distributed) to "manufacture or > distribute tech

Re: CSS authentication for DVD-ROMs

1999-10-27 Thread Andre Oppermann
Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > > >Given the recent posting of DVD movie decryption code (see Slashdot > >for details), I was wondering if there was interest for code that > >does CSS authentication for DVD-ROM drives. > > I looked at the slashdot posts, and was surprised (I guess) to see that nobody >

Re: CSS authentication for DVD-ROMs

1999-10-26 Thread Sean Eric Fagan
>Given the recent posting of DVD movie decryption code (see Slashdot >for details), I was wondering if there was interest for code that >does CSS authentication for DVD-ROM drives. I looked at the slashdot posts, and was surprised (I guess) to see that nobody seems to know about the Digital Mille

Re: CSS authentication for DVD-ROMs

1999-10-26 Thread Syam Gadde
Patches for CSS to a bleeding-edge -current (well, Monday night) can be found at: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gadde/freebsd/dvd/ Anyone want to try it out? Run "tstdvd" on a patched kernel and see what happens. I've been able to authenticate most of my 6 DVDs (including The Matrix and A Bu

Re: CSS authentication for DVD-ROMs

1999-10-26 Thread Syam Gadde
Quoting Julian Elischer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is SFF8090 available online somewhere? ftp://fission.dt.wdc.com/pub/standards/SFF/specs/INF-8090.PDF ftp://ftp.avc-pioneer.com/Mtfuji4/Spec/Fuji4r03.pdf ...and other harder to find places (that I can't find anymore :). These are a newer vers

Re: CSS authentication for DVD-ROMs

1999-10-26 Thread Tet Solfire
I agree. I have a Creative Labs Dxr2 DVD kit that I'm more than willing to test code on/with. (Any word on the Dxr2 mpeg decoder card? ) On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > Anything we can get towards working DVD is good. > > > On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Syam Gadde wrote: > [...] > > >

Re: CSS authentication for DVD-ROMs

1999-10-26 Thread Julian Elischer
Anything we can get towards working DVD is good. On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Syam Gadde wrote: [...] > > Basically, my modifications follow the publicly available Mt. Fuji > spec for Multimedia Devices (SFF8090), and allow a user-level > program (such as css-auth above) to do the nasty work, using ioc

CSS authentication for DVD-ROMs

1999-10-26 Thread Syam Gadde
Given the recent posting of DVD movie decryption code (see Slashdot for details), I was wondering if there was interest for code that does CSS authentication for DVD-ROM drives. Has anyone been working on this? It's been in the Linux source tree for a while, and I've spent a small amount of time