Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XOR with "RANDOM_STRING"

Re:Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XO... by charonn0 on Monday November 26, 2012 @08:31PM (#4835081)

Please, if anything commend the dear fellow, and shame on whoever considered a momentary glimpse of Google Plus limelight worth making this guy's Tuesday morning and ongoing professional reputation much harder earned than it otherwise might have been.

The developer(s) created a product that didn't do even 10% of what was advertised and now must face the consequences. Why is that bad? Their professional reputation should suffer if the quality of their work is poor.

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Re:Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XO... by zera_holladay on Monday November 26, 2012 @09:57PM (#4835391)

That's a huge assumption.

Anyone with a few years of experience in the software field has heard the following: I'll pay you N dollars to X but you have to finish by unrealistic Y. I'm the sole provider of a household of 4, so in this kind of circumstances I'll agree to minimum features or specific features plus additional features if time allows. I'll make it very clear that the client can't have their cake and eat it too. Sometimes it's merely a matter of economics, so don't go hanging anyone yet.

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Re:Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XO... by charonn0 on Monday November 26, 2012 @10:09PM (#4835421)

the "proprietary video encryption" algorithm: for the first 15kB, each 1kB block has its initial bytes xor'd with the string "RANDOM_STRING".

Any minimally competent developer could have implemented this particular design during, and for the price of, their lunch.

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