Leaked HDCP Master Key Confirmed as Authentic
Leaked HDCP Master Key Confirmed as Authentic
Posted 09/17/2010 at 5:10am
| by Pulkit Chandna
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Intel has laid to rest all doubts over the authenticity of the alleged HDCP master key code that was leaked onto the internet a few days ago. The chip maker on Thursday confirmed that the code is indeed what it was claimed to be in an anonymous post on Pastebin.com.
"We can use it to generate valid device keys that do interoperate with the (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) protocol," Intel spokesman Tom Waldrop told CNET. The Intel-developed High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) protocol is used so that only licensed devices can play copyright-protected content, with each HDCP-compliant device having a unique set of keys.
However, Intel isn't overly concerned about the impact this leak might have. "For someone to use this information to unlock anything, they would have to implement it in silicon -- make a computer chip,” Waldrop told Fox News.
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Nimrod
September 17, 2010 at 3:16pm
I built one out uf LEGOs already ima sell it for almost as much as what a new LEGO set costs
Elric
September 17, 2010 at 9:09am
The Chinese will be rocking new silicon by the end of the week using this info.
joebob
September 17, 2010 at 8:49am
Don't they know that FPGAs (the platform used to develop chips) are not illegal to own? You can get a decent brand new one for about $200, hell, the software to develop the chips is free, you don't even really need the hardware to develop it (but it is a good idea to do so). Theoretically, any schmuck with sufficient knowledge could prototype this chip in a about a week, and then have 2000 of them made at some shady factory in china, then profit.
Now that I'm thinking about it..... (runs off to build chip)
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