2007.01.23 Daily Security Reading
by Rodney Campbell on Jan.23, 2007, under Security
New Cryptanalytic Results Against SHA-1
Yesterday I reported on an article claiming that SHA-1 has been cracked… Bruce Schneier says the reality is more complicated.
HDCP: beta testing DRM on the public?
When the supposedly uncrackable copy protection used on DVD was indeed cracked back in 1999, two very different messages were received. Hackers and most tech enthusiasts took the crack as yet another sign that these encryption schemes will all, ultimately, fall to the efforts of hackers. The titans of the entertainment industry received another message—a challenge, as it were, to build an even more "robust" content protection system.
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