MLUG: Re: [MLUG] Perl DVD Descramber
Re: [MLUG] Perl DVD Descramber
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On Thursday 15 March 2001 01:04, Michael wrote:
> So does this mean the original descrambler is legal if they remove the
> keys and force you to download them from some offshore server or such
> nonsense something like you have to do w/ ROM images sometimes for
> emulators?
Decss is legal offshore, too.  It is only illegal inside the US.

> So the five bytes is the only thing keeping this from being legal? How
> long can it possibly take to search every possible 5-byte string for one
> that works? Why bother even including them?
That's what I'm wondering about, too.  Especially since they guessed the keys 
anyway.  Can't you just have an on-the-fly keygen algorithm where it 
generates it's own list of keys every time you run it?
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-- Igor
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