[fowtowmowcow]

I'm not sure that they can of the key is proprietary to Intel. I think this would open up those projects to litigation.

[einarfd]

There seems to be a bit of a precedence with the AACS DVD encryption keys that got leaked (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controve...), the suppression of that key. Seems to have failed, it was widely copied, and you can even find a copy of it on my link to Wikipedia.

[realusername]

> I'm not sure that they can of the key is proprietary to Intel. I think this would open up those projects to litigation

Depends of the legislation.

That's questionable in the US since the keys are 100% machine generated and thus not copyrightable.

In most of the EU, it's clear though, there's interobability exceptions and those keys can be shared freely.

[zapdrive]

It's just a string of characters.

[brookst]

So are bomb threats and false advertising.

I don't think "it's just characters" is a one-simple-trick.

[ok123456]

you make a mathematical formula that generates the key.

[evancox100]

Good luck with that argument!

"Your honor, I wasn't copying that movie. You see, I applied a mathematical formula to the .zip file, and it just happened to produce the movie as output. Coincidence!"

(That's not to say the key is copyrightable, it's not. I think the relevant law would be the DMCA anti-circumvention provision.)

[brookst]

"I didn't distribute the movie, just a file that XOR'd every byte with 255!"

Technical people tend to see the law as a technical thing, where technical arguments will win. Courts are generally unamused, since every judge has years of experience with defendants who think that they've discovered one simple trick.

[Xorlev]

Software, movies, music is just a string of bits.

Using something leaked always carries some inherent risk.

[realusername]

The difference is that software and music are made by authors unlike keys, that's what makes them copyrightable