Re: [clueless] cryptography in DVD? Re: DVD-ROM problems

From: Tuukka Toivonen (tutoivon@mail.student.oulu.fi)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 04:45:39 EST


On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Michael H. Warfield wrote:

> So video DVDs are encrypted. Jon Johnson in Norway broke the decryption

To be a bit more exact, Jon Johnson writes himself:
        "... the reverse engineering was done by our german
        member who wrote the decryption code."
(quote from slashdot)

The "german member" has stayed anonymous for the public so far.

Credits go where they belong, for Jon too, even if he didn't to all of it
alone.

This starts getting a bit offtopic...

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