Well if you remember, Jon Johanson was aided in hacking CSS by the fact that US crypto export laws in the 90s prevented exporting encryption higher than 40 bit. CSS was developed with the international market in mind and thus could be brute forced in a much more reasonable amount of time than if it had used 128 bit encryption. I think that's was a flaw in the implementation too.
Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.
Well if you remember, Jon Johanson was aided in hacking CSS by the fact that US crypto export laws in the 90s prevented exporting encryption higher than 40 bit. CSS was developed with the international market in mind and thus could be brute forced in a much more reasonable amount of time than if it had used 128 bit encryption. I think that's was a flaw in the implementation too.