a day with DisplayLink USB3 and HDCP

So for some reason I decided to look at the displaylink usb3 adaptors today. (no good news).

This blog post is so I don't forget all of this when I page it out. Notes, HDCP1.0 being broken doesn't matter to this, maybe HDCPv2.0 being a bit broken could be used, but I'm not sure how!

The displaylink USB3 protocol is based on HDCP protocol. I've traced the first few packets and it clearly
looks like the host sends two packets

AKE_Init,
AKE_Transmitter_Info

and the device sends back
AKE_Send_Cert

at least.

AKE_Send_Cert contains a 522 byte certificate, containing a receiver id, public key, some misc bytes and a signature generated with the DCP LLC private key, that you have to verify.

so the HDCP v2.2 spec contains the DP LLC public key, and I've written some code to verify the spec using openssl, but it totally fails to work. This is probably due to me doing something stupid, or not understanding what I'm doing, if you are openssl knowledgeable and want to look, the hack fest is
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~airlied/dl3dev/

It might be the DisplayLink devices use a different signing key than the DP LLC one.

That repo contains some code to talk to the device (currently disabled) and do the initial sequence, along with an attempt to verify the cert.

Now once I get past this hurdle, the larger one seems to remain, the HDCP 2.0 spec has a global secret 128-bit value called LC128, that everyone who implements HDCP gets and hides somewhere. Its probably sitting in the displaylink driver in hex, but I'd hope they at least hide it better than that. It may also be possibly supplied by the OS, Windows or OSX. (I've no clue yet). That value is used in the key negotiation.

Now it might be possible that Displaylink allow non-HDCP encrypted data to be sent to the device, in which case win if I can find out where/how to do that, or it might be the device requires HDCP and decrypts non-HDCP content before sending it over VGA/DVI. I've no ideas yet on that front either.

Ah well probably enough learning for today, I knew nothing about HDCP this morning, so I can't say it made my life any better learning about it :-P