X-PROTECT blue: A New Copy Protection for Blu-ray Disc Released

[zatoicchi]

X-PROTECT blue was announced earlier this week hoping to position itself as an extra layer of copy protection solution for Blu-ray Discs, together with the existing AACS.

Developed by X-PROTECT, a German manufacturer of anti-piracy-protection systems for DVDs and DVD-Rs, the new X-PROTECT blue solution is designed to combat illegal piracy on Blu-ray Discs.

The solution works on both HDMV and BD-J Blu-ray Discs and it can be frequently updated to stop new piracy attacks in its tracks. The company claims that X-PROTECT blue fulfills all Blu-ray requirements and specifications and works in combination with AACS, the content protection scheme currently used in Blu-ray movie releases.

The main advantage of the X-PROTECT blue is that it can be implemented seamlessly into the current workflow and does not impact the authoring and replication process. The material stays within the normal secure environment and does not need to be sent out to any offsite facility. This is very important for the replicators. Currently, a Blu-ray replicator should buy media key blocks (MKB) from te AACS LA in order to be used in the pre-mastering stage. The pre-mastering tools use the MKBs to encrypt the content and outputs a content certificate, which should be sent to the AACS LA for signing and approval. All this procedure is quite time consuming.

X-PROTECT blue: A New Copy Protection for Blu-ray Disc Released

[Aurion]

Sounds a good idea to have a tool protecting a Large File Format as the Blu-Ray which for sure,at some sort of stages would need protection while burning/rewriting Its a New generation so hope it comes handy in a while once it gets expanded

[zatoicchi]

And the hackers are waiting to cracked the first disk they get hands on. will what happens then...

[Aurion]

And the hackers are waiting to cracked the first disk they get hands on. will what happens then...

LOL crackers know their moment of truth when comes,so dont worry its just a couple of weeks till we hear about a crack/patch

[shoulder]

I still hope there will ever be a BR-D_Shrink released like there was DVD_Shrink for DVDs.

[zatoicchi]

hear about a crack/patch

As long as the keys and the locks come on the same disk people will be able to crack these systems

[anon]

its just a couple of weeks till we hear about a crack/patch

i'm sure a private proof-of-concept is already out

[Aurion]

yeah crackers wont sleep till a new release gets OWNed

[zatoicchi]

This is why Blu-Ray won the war on the dvd format, Hollywood will only back something that is hard to cracked.

[anon]

hard but not impossible i think we'll most likely be hearing about how X-Prot was cracked soon... remember 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0? :)

[shoulder]

But I think it will take some time.
Remember how long it take to crack BD+.

BTW, what's 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0?

[anon]

BTW, what's 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0?

the bytes that were needed to crack DVD CSS protection in its time just google that and also see the DECSS wikipedia article to have an idea

[shoulder]

Ah, didn't know this string.
CSS was crap, as far as I know it was cracked very fast.

BTW, a good board specialized in such things is Doom9.
Here's a link to the Decrypting Area.

[anon]

Ah, didn't know this string.
CSS was crap, as far as I know it was cracked very fast.

its name says it all... it was just a content scrambling system, so there was never real encryption involved we could say

[Aurion]

Well,cracking videos I guess isnt that easy (for sure im not aware of any parts of that field) but I guess Reverse Engineering is way hard in terms of coding different bytes strings