[IP] more on Johansen and DeCSS authorship
Begin forwarded message:
From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 12, 2004 8:16:31 AM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Richard Forno <rforno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] Johansen and DeCSS authorship
[For IP, if worthy]
From: Richard Forno <rforno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Jon Lech Johnasen, author of DeCSS, has discovered the public key that
...
As Jon Johansen has written and testified many times, DeCSS was
actually written by three people (including him). And the cryptographic
reverse-engineering was in fact done by an anonymous German programmer
(who is remaining anonymous for *very* obvious reasons). While it may
be a minor point, I feel for that programmer, and do not want his
contribution and credit lost from the history.
http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/
20000720_ny_trial_transcript.html
Q. Who wrote DeCSS?
A. I and two other people wrote DeCSS.
Q. Mr. Johansen, what did you do next towards making DeCSS?<br>
A. We agreed that the person who I met would reverse engineer
a DVD player in order to obtain the CSS algorithm and keys.<br>
Q. Who was this person that you met on the Internet?<br>
A. A person from Germany. I don't know his identity. ...
Q. He wrote the encryption code?
A. Decryption code.
Q. Decryption.
A. Yes.
Q. Ham is a member of Masters of Reverse Engineering or MORE?
A. That's correct. ...
Q. And it was Ham's reverse engineering of the Xing DVD
player that revealed the CSS encryption algorithm, am I right?
A. Yes, that's correct.
Q. Reverse engineering by Ham took place in or about September 1999?
A. Yes, I believe it was late in September of 1999.
Q. And you testified that it was this revelation of the CSS
encryption algorithm and not any weakness in the CSS cipher
that allowed MORE to create DeCSS, is that correct?
A. Yes, that's correct.
Q. You obtained the decryption portions of the DeCSS source
code from Ham, correct?
A. Yes, that's correct.
Q. You then compiled the source code and created the executable?
A. Well, in the form I received it, it was not compatible.
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