transparent DeCSS: digital circuit better than perl?

[Blank Frank]

At 01:51 PM 3/10/01 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
>DVD CSS decoding in 7 lines of perl is a cute hack,
>but it doesn't accomplish one of the main goals of DVDCSS,
>which is to explain the structure of the lame crypto algorithm.
>Even if you unwrap this to put the white space back,
>it's dense unreadable line noise.

Touretsky recently added a Verilog description of DeCSS to his Gallery,
FWIW.
This is human-readable, machine-interpretable, and could be synthesized
to a real physical
circuit.