What BF does is first confirm whether Via2=Via1 algo, as most all of us believe, and that the trick with Via2 cards is security. You can't get nothing by traditional methods off a Via2 card - unlike a Seca2 one. But everything else points to the Via algo being the same. BF will prove this one way or the other. If it proves it didn't change, as a bonus you get a Via2 provider hacked in the process. Then numbers wanting to sign up treble overnight and we go hunt some more Via2 providers if still no backdoor to cards by then.
@lee
So far as op keys are concerned, unfortunately Via2 will be the only one worth attempting a brute for keys on. The keyspace to search for Via2 is 2^64 - historic and big, but not impossible.
Irdeto2, on the other hand, with id factored in means a 2^80 keyspace. To put in persepctive, just to go to 2^65, you'd have to take all the time it takes to search a 2^64 and then double it. Then double it again to go to 2^66 and on and on
Seca2 is even worse - Seca (algo is modified and unknown anyway) uses primary and secondary keys = 2^128 keyspace. And that one with 100,000 PCs we can't do in 200 years.
But with Via2, we got a shot. Good to see you're signed up and crunching
