[HN Gopher] (Open) Widevine support added to the OpenBSD Chromiu...
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       (Open) Widevine support added to the OpenBSD Chromium port
        
       Author : upofadown
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2026-01-18 13:09 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.undeadly.org)
        
       | rwmj wrote:
       | I'm confused about how open source DRM can even be a thing.
       | Presumably once you've obtained one of these client identity
       | files, you can modify OpenWV to capture the decrypted / raw video
       | to wherever you want?
        
         | Mindwipe wrote:
         | It isn't, it's just an open source library to talk to the
         | closed source Widevine plugin included with Chrome, or, in this
         | case with keys illicitly obtained from a broken Google plugin
         | that they haven't revoked yet.
         | 
         | There were some open source white box cryptography attempts
         | fifteen or so years ago and they didn't work because of
         | precisely what you say.
        
           | rwmj wrote:
           | Thanks that makes more sense (and is also a bit
           | disappointing!)
        
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