Comment Re:Why do you (Score 1) 606
Thakandar2 wrote
Except whatever media player software that was allowed to play the encrypted files would have to include the key somehow. Just reverse engineer the software. I'm sure a lot of hackers right here on /. would love nothing more than doing just that.
The difference to PGP is that the software decoding the PGP message will ask for a password that's used in the decoding, and the person holding that password may not want to cooperate with the feds. If you give people some kind of "passphrase" to play their movies any hacker could just rent a single movie to get it.
How does the MPAA fix all this otherwise? They need to hire a few cryptogrophers and actually pay them enough not to leak the key to the public, is what. That would work for a while. I mean, if PGP kept the FBI busy for so long, it would stop Joe Schmoe who is all you have to worry about even with VCR's.
Except whatever media player software that was allowed to play the encrypted files would have to include the key somehow. Just reverse engineer the software. I'm sure a lot of hackers right here on
The difference to PGP is that the software decoding the PGP message will ask for a password that's used in the decoding, and the person holding that password may not want to cooperate with the feds. If you give people some kind of "passphrase" to play their movies any hacker could just rent a single movie to get it.
