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DeCSS

Son of DIVX: DVD Copy Control. An excellent article by Rob Landley of Fool.com about DeCSS. "The deCSS program is neither designed nor necessary for copying DVD movies, which isn't economically feasible anyway and not technically possible with the partially prewritten blank disks being sold today. In any case, a tool to copy DVDs would be legal for personal use."

Download DeCSS tools:
Find out more:
  • OpenDVD
  • "Cryptanalysis of Contents Scrambling System" by Frank A. Stevenson. A technical article on the inherent weakness of the DVD encryption scheme. To quote Stevenson's abstract, "...even if the keys can be securely stored in hardware, the data will not be protected from unauthorized copying."
  • Slashdot.org - The lastest news.

Some DeCSS Mirrors:

A large number of sites are attempting the mirror the CSS technology information, and a small fraction of these are listed below. Several will no doubt be down:

www.devzero.org/freecss.html
www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/
www.rhythm.cx/dvd/
caspian.twu.net/dvd
www.homestead.com/avoiderman/files/index.html
www.angelfire.com/jazz/avoiderman/
freeweb.digiweb.com/business/avoiderman/
www.intelcities.com/Main_Street/Avoiderman/
members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/dvd.htm
www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Software/6003/index.html
www.members.home.net/seeleyc/decss.htm
members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vreeken/
www.free-dvd.org.lu/

Posted by John on February 21, 2000 8:58 AM | |

 

 

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