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Jon Johansen�s PlayFair decrypter for Apple iTunes

6 April 2004 6:56 by Lasse "cd-rw.org" Penttinen | 4 comments

Jon Lech Johansen, who has become world famous for originally cracking the CSS protection of the DVD movies, has made yet another decryption tool.

"The playfair program is quite simple," according to the README. "It takes one of the iTMS Protected AAC Audio Files, decodes it using a key obtained from your iPod or Microsoft Windows system and then writes the new, decoded version to disk as a regular AAC Audio File. It then optionally copies the metadata tags that describe the song, including the cover art, to the new file."

Even though it seems virtually impossible to securely protect digital audio, the Apple Corp. doesn�t give up. According to the source, a patent application by Apple implies that they are developing a new DRM method of their own.

Source: The Register

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Vular (Member) 6 April 2004 8:15
Good ol DVD Jon, he'll always find a way. :) [ + quote]
pcshateme (Inactive) 6 April 2004 18:28
i hope those dicks dont go after him again [ + quote]
djscoop (AfterDawn Addict) 8 April 2004 20:40
take THAT apple!!! [ + quote]
maryjayne (Junior Member) 1 June 2004 18:38
I wonder how many more years the industries will take to realize that copy protections are made to be broken. [ + quote]