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Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome by ComputerGuru on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @09:40PM (#33338665)
I agree with your assessment. The reference to “box” makes me think it was definitely the container. I also don’t see the codec called MP4, it’s usually spelled out MPEG-4.
Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome by Maursault on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:04PM (#33338860)
".mp4" is just a file extension, the source of the colloquial name for the container. But both the container and the codec are named MPEG-4 and both are colloquially called "MP4."

"Box level" is apparently referring to types of cryptography, "S-boxes are non-linear transformations of a few input bits that provide confusion and P-boxes simply shuffle the input bits around to provide diffusion"[1] The basic function of S-Box[2] is to transform 8 bits input data into 8 bits of secret data using a precomputed look-up-table (LUT). A "permutation box (or P-box) is a method of bit-shuffling used to permute or transpose bits across S-boxes inputs, retaining diffusion while transposing."[3]

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/learning/symmetric-cryptography-ess...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-box

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_box

Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome by Retr0id on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @01:39AM (#33340204)
different box
Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome by Maursault on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @02:53AM (#33340600)
What other "box level encryption" is there?
Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome by Retr0id on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @03:01AM (#33340655)
http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/ISO_Base_Media_File_...

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Boxes/atoms_format

Encryption of boxes, not encryption with boxes. (the existence of AES sboxes is coincidental, and is not what was being discussed)

Re:Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome by Maursault on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @05:41AM (#33341535)
Thanks, I really had no idea what he was talking about... fucking movie atoms. I've always hated those things, and the idea of encrypting them makes them even more sadistic.