Safedisc support (was: Road to 1.0)

[Phil Costin]

Stefan Dösinger wrote:

> Am Sonntag 25 März 2007 17:33 schrieb Phil Costin:
>> Also, just out of interest, would a working safedisc implementation
>> provide the necessary underpinnings to support the hexalock copy
>> protection system? (http://hexalock.co.il/)
> I think the needed infrastructure is the same, but of course we will have
> to do extra bugfixing for each copy protection scheme.
> 
> That hexalock thing sounds pretty rootkitish. I suspect that the real
> content of the cd is encrypted, with an unencrypted decryption program.
> That decryption program installs a rootkit which catches and blocks copy
> operations on the source files and hacks MS IE 6 to prevent copy and
> paste.
> 
> If they were not completely stupid I am afraid that thing will not work
> unless we load the driver into the Linux kernel. If the same driver that
> prevents copy operations does the decryption it will have to be hooked
> into the Linux cdrom driver. Maybe with raw access the decryption can be
> done to allow programs in wine to access the cd, but not Linux programs.
> There is a wikipedia page about it, but it is only a copy of the website.
> 
> Of course if they are stupid enough to store the protected content
> unencrypted, then we only have to make the rootkit happy enough to give
> the app its OK.
> 
> Personally I cannot see how their copy protected CDRs can resist a simple
> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=copy.iso

You're right, the hexalock disc content is mostly encrypted. It's pretty
nasty stuff really.

-Phil