On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Kristian Kielhofner <kris@kriskinc.com> wrote:

More scaremonger tactics from paper authors and journalists...

This is for variable bitrate codecs only. Weaknesses in encryption
for non-padded VBR codecs have been known for some time.

Agreed. VBR is, by definition, giving away extra information, and it's been know for a long time to do this. I'd like to see what they got out of non-VBR encrypted streams. Still, I'm gonna check this out to see if there's anything useful underneath the hair-on-fire claims.

-MC