Posted by Tim Smith on 01/04/07 02:33

In article <7oiop2lu5jbk925j83893vbjho8uia65dh@4ax.com>,
JoeBloe <joebloe@thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote:
> DeCSS did NOT get disemboweled, you retarded twit, the keys got
> incorporated into a software product unencrypted, which means it was
> "let out". No person EVER broke it. Get your facts straight,
> fucktard.

This depends on what you mean by "broke". In particular, do you
consider a successful brute force attack a break? With its mere 40-bit
key length, and weak algorithms, CSS falls fairly quickly to a brute
force attack, in about 2^25 steps.

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--Tim Smith

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