2012-11-27 00:48:27.787505+00 by Dan Lyke 2 comments
Why you don't roll your own encryption. Asher Langton downloads Leaping Brain video file, discovers that player is a Python wrapper around VLC, figures out that he can save unencrypted .MOV from that, further finds that in fact the "BrainTrust™ proprietary video encryption" is that the beginning of each 1K block is XOR'd with "RANDOM_STRING".
Doh.
[ related topics: Monty Python Cryptography Video Python ]
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#Comment Re: made: 2012-11-27 02:41:05.475658+00 by: other_todd [edit history]
I roll my own encryption, but it's for relatively low security stuff, because dealing with PGP is an effing pain. And I'd never pull anything as half-assed as what that guy did. I'm not saying exactly what I use, but I'll just say I haven't been seriously into recreational cryptography since I was ten years old for nothing.
[Edited to make it clear that I can do way better than the XOR fool, not that I can do way better than PGP. If I were THAT good I'd be doing crypto for a living.]
#Comment Re: made: 2012-11-27 03:02:05.037745+00 by: TheSHAD0W
Article 3 days from now: Asher Langton is charged under the DMCA for circumventing encryption.