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HDCP protection cracked by Germans and $250 worth of gear

article published on 26 November, 2011

High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) has been cracked by a group of computer scientists at Germany's Ruhr University. The protection, created by Intel and used by most monitors to allow encrypted transfer of HD signals via DisplayPort, HDMI and DVI, was first "cracked" last year when the master key was leaked online but there has been little practical use for the key. Explains ... [ read the full article ]

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KillerBug
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_ 		26. November 2011 @ 02:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This has actually been possible for a while, without any special hardware or FPGA. There are numerous HDMI audio splitters that strip HDCP while splitting the signal.
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dEwMe
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_ 		26. November 2011 @ 11:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Should anybody be suprised anyway? Nothing is uncrackable...

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Just my $0.02,

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LordRuss
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_ 		26. November 2011 @ 14:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
...not to mention it took a year to figure this out? I'm not an engineer by any stretch of the imagination, but even I would have thought of some form of 'feedback' or 'echo' style component would have been a solution, if 'hardware only' were the only parameters you were approaching this.

It's not that I'm knocking these guys either, but it's been so long since applying this solution was an issue that I've forgotten why it was a problem... Oh, yeah, now I think I remember...
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_ 		26. November 2011 @ 22:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The only real problem is that you need to rent a cablecard (you cannot buy one) to use your PC as a full quality DVR for Cable, Sat, or FiOS. But as I said, you get the signal splitter and a signal combiner, put them in series, strip the HDCP, and record the result, with no quality loss. This has been going on for years.
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