eBay: Burn DVD movies onto CD?
George at Orwellian.Org
George at Orwellian.Org
Thu Jun 21 11:13:18 PDT 2001
Wobbly Ride wrote:
# That's true. However, in order to read data from a DVD, you
# must first "authenticate" to the DVD player. This is before
# any decryption takes place. This is a cryptographic handshake
# mechanism using a key. If you do not perform this handshake,
# it is not possible to read the data.
Are these DVD controller chips specially contructed
like a clipper chip, or can they be reverse engineered?
Sonce the decryption key is known, why can't
someone burn a more user-friendly chip? (per manufacturer)
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