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Old 14th January 2018, 23:21   #18  |  Link
candela
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Originally Posted by Relight View Post
New development and new keys here: http://makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=16959

Anyone have any thoughts about what these "hashed keys" are?
At first glance, these hashed keys are just a way to force people into using makemkv. Why else would he also not release the specification for this fantastic new file format in this announcement. He even states it is possible to encode the keys in both formats but then only releases the hashed keys. Also, no info on how these keys are better. The format itself is obviously not superior since it contains no info except a volumelabel and some kind of unknown hash which provides no way to identify a disc you own like the SHA-1 hash keydb uses. For all we know he can simply take the discid+vuk, encrypt them and then apply something similar to base64 encoding
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