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Intel backed video encryption standard is 'fatally flawed'

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/21085.html

By John Leyden

Posted: 16/08/2001 at 17:40 GMT

A well-respected cryptographer claims he has discovered a way to break an Intel-backed format for encoding video transmissions - but is prevented by US law on speaking on the issue.

Niels Ferguson believes he could be prosecuted under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act so he has held off publishing his findings which suggest flaws with the High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) system.

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