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Originally Posted by Losttheplot
One of the people working for the company doing the encyrption for On Digital released a document onto the internet which spelt out the inner workings of the On Digital encryption system. It wasn't hacked. Nobody has hacked any encryption, they have found back doors into certain versions of smartcards which have enabled them to find the Master keys
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Yep, which is the same way as Nagra2 got done on D+, they were running 2 different encryptions using the same key, one was already known and by using that info they managed to extrapolate a master key for Nagra2.
Even RSA/MD5/WEP and other keyed algorithams don't really get cracked but instead they're brute forced....it's like trying a combination safe with every single possiblecombination....there might be many millions but one of them is right
Until VM do change thier encryption method then unfortunately there will be chipped boxes out there probably putting up the cost for everyone else (even if 10% of the people with chipped boxes instead had a legal subscription then VM would probably have a slightly lower price) but beware even if they do change the encryption method it won't stop card sharing/copying networks
Kymmy