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The Taxman Cometh
by Anonymous 28 Dec '00

28 Dec '00

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28 Dec '00

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Evil Copy Protection vs. Good Crypto-Capable Objects
by Bill Stewart 27 Dec '00

27 Dec '00

Most of us agree that this technology is Nasty Copy Protection pushed by Nasty Software Hoarders opposed to Honest Open Source, and by Nasty Music Hoarders who want us to Pay Per View for music, videos, e-books, and other products that we've bought, using them technical workarounds for activities that would normally be covered by First Sale and Fair Use and only be covered by the limited protections of copyright, and they richly deserve to Die Like DIVX (remember DIVX?*) and get rejected by the market like Lotus Copy Protection. (*I'm told DIVX's cracked format has been recycled as a convenient tool for Napsterizing videos...) Much worse, these Mindshare Marketing Thugs are in league with the sleazy DMCA-abusers who got a law written badly enough that it not only directly confiscates the previous rights of information consumers but goes far beyond that to criminalize people who are engaged in the legitimate activity of seeing what it is they bought and using it in interesting ways. The technical side is bad enough, but left to itself, either Darwin would get them or they'd find a market that's willing to be couch-potato consumers we can sneer at, either of which are ok, while the legal side is outright evil. But what happens if we look at this from a cypherpunks viewpoint? Cypherpunks write code. Nasty MusicHoarderPunks can too. The right way to protect information isn't to write laws, which are ineffective against crackers (whether government or free-lance), usually contain loopholes for cops to abuse, and can be changed if the government wants to - it's to write code and algorithms and hardware designs that actually protect the information. That's what these guys are doing, and it's what we WANT them to do, though we'd rather have them operate a gift economy, the way the folk music profession did before it commercialized, and the church music and hacking professions. (I'm not counting the use of DMCA to criminalize working around bad software - that's still evil.) How do you build tools to protect information, at a level of granularity that someone who'd cracked root on a Unix box or bought or cracked User on a Windows box can't break into? You use crypto to encrypt data, with public-key algorithms to do appropriate parts in public, use objects that maintain their own data and keys, and maybe you build capability-based operating systems, or partition functions into separate devices like smartcards or intelligent peripherals to keep the private parts more isolated. If you want to build a For Your Ears Only secure telephone, it's much easier if you can ship an encrypted data stream that only the recipient's headphone can decrypt. And if you want a digital signature system that can't easily be forged by FBI spook who shoulder-surfs your passphrase, or want a digital payment system that can't easily be ripped off by some online store clerk, it's easier if you can use some hardware object in the process. To a large extent, the threat models are critical to your security - but if being overprotected doesn't interfere with regular use, and doesn't interfere with the other protection you're building, it's not a Bad Thing. Of course, it cuts two ways - if you're not a Good Guy building hardware protection against virus crackers, but an NSA Spook building cracking tools to workaround for the software protections, it's nice to get down and dirty in the hardware and hire Chip-R-Us to include an undocumented Export Chip Private Key instruction in addition to the Export Chip Public Key instruction... Music Hoarders have a somewhat harder problem, in that they want to copy-protect information while providing near-identical copies to large numbers of people, while you're more likely to want to provide your personal transaction information or private messages only to a small number of recipients - but you may still want some kind of watermarking to identify who sold your "private" information to somebody you didn't authorize. As long as watermarking isn't seriously obnoxious, the fact that different listeners hear slightly different versions isn't that bad - listeners at a concert also hear different versions depending on whether they're in the front row, the nosebleed seats, or the Phil Zone, as well as how hard they've been dancing, how bouncily the people in front are dancing, whether Jerry forgot some of the words or had a magical guitar night that reminds them of a previous concert, and how, umm, chemically enhanced they are :-) Somebody allegedly wrote to RAH: >Don't forget Intel and IBM are charter members of both these scuzzy >outfits. And somebody please tell me what good an encrypted hard >drive is gonna be when the key material has to pass through an untrusted >PC running a see-through OS such as Windows? If one is actually >trying to save the data _from_ the PC operator not _for_ him/her, one >needs a TCPA-like hardening. At least Intel and IBM must realize this Intel and IBM know that Windows isn't going to protect their data - if they want it protected, they'll have to work around it, using techniques like CPUs, speakers, and disk drives that share public keys and only pass encrypted data through the OS. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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Copy protection of ordinary disk drives?
by tom＠unicorn.lemuria.org 27 Dec '00

27 Dec '00

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:16:03 -0800 From: John Gilmore <gnu(a)toad.com> To: cryptography(a)c2.net, gnu(a)toad.com Subject: IBM&Intel push copy protection into ordinary disk drives The Register has broken a story of the latest tragedy of copyright mania in the computer industry. Intel and IBM have invented and are pushing a change to the standard spec for PC hard drives that would make each one enforce "copy protection" on the data stored on the hard drive. You wouldn't be able to copy data from your own hard drive to another drive, or back it up, without permission from some third party. Every drive would have a unique ID and unique keys, and would encrypt the data it stores -- not to protect YOU, the drive's owner, but to protect unnamed third parties AGAINST you. The same guy who leads the DVD Copy Control Association is heading the organization that licenses this new technology -- John Hoy. He's a front-man for the movie and record companies, and a leading figure in the California DVD lawsuit. These people are lunatics, who would destroy the future of free expression and technological development, so they could sit in easy chairs at the top of the smoking ruins and light their cigars off 'em. The folks at Intel and IBM who are letting themselves be led by the nose are even crazier. They've piled fortunes on fortunes by building machines that are better and better at copying and communicating WHATEVER collections of raw bits their customers desire to copy. Now for some completely unfathomable reason, they're actively destroying that working business model. Instead they're building in circuitry that gives third parties enforceable veto power over which bits their customers can send where. (This disk drive stuff is just the tip of the iceberg; they're doing the same thing with LCD monitors, flash memory, digital cable interfaces, BIOSes, and the OS. Next week we'll probably hear of some new industry-wide copy protection spec, perhaps for network interface cards or DRAMs.) I don't know whether the movie moguls are holding compromising photos of Intel and IBM executives over their heads, or whether they have simply lost their minds. The only way they can succeed in imposing this on the buyers in the computer market is if those buyers have no honest vendors to turn to. Or if those buyers honestly don't know what they are being sold. So spread the word. No copy protection should exist ANYWHERE in generic computer hardware! It's up to the BUYER to determine what to use their product for. It's not up to the vendors of generic hardware, and certainly not up to a record company that's shadily influencing those vendors in back-room meetings. Demand a policy declaration from your vendor that they will build only open hardware, not covertly controlled hardware. Use your purchasing dollars to enforce that policy. Our business should go to the honest vendors, who'll sell you a drive and an OS and a motherboard and a CPU and a monitor that YOU, the buyer, can determine what is a valid use of. Don't send your money to Intel or IBM or Sony. Give your money to the vendors who'll sell you a product that YOU control. John http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/15620.html Stealth plan puts copy protection into every hard drive Hastening a rapid demise for the free copying of digital media, the next generation of hard disks is likely to come with copyright protection countermeasures built in. Technical committees of NCTIS, the ANSI-blessed standards body, have been discussing the incorporation of content protection currently used for removable media into industry-standard ATA drives, using proprietary technology originating from the 4C Entity. They're the people who brought you CSS2: IBM, Toshiba Intel and Matsushita. The scheme envisaged brands each drive with a unique identifier at manufacturing time. The proposals are already at an advanced stage: three drafts have already been discussed for incorporating CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media) into the ATA specification by the NCTIS T.13 committee. The committee next meets in February. If, as expected, the CPRM extensions become part of the ATA specification, copyright protection will be in every industry-standard hard disk by next summer, according to IBM. However, what's likely to create a firestorm of industry protest is that the proposed mechanism introduces problems to moving data between compliant and non-compliant hard drives. Modifications to existing backup programs, imaging software, RAID arrays and logical volume managers will be required to cope with the new drives, The Register has discovered. The ramifications are enormous. Although the benefit to producers is great - - bringing the holy grail of secure content one step closer - the costs to consumers will be significant. For example, corporate IT departments will be unable to mix compliant and non-compliant ATA drives as they try to enforce uniform back up policies, we've discovered. Restoring personal backups to a different physical drive - a common enough occurrence when a disk has failed - will require authentication with a central server. Imaging software used by OEMs and large corporates to distribute one-to-many disk images will also need to be modified. And the move casts a shadow over some of the hottest emerging business models: the network attached storage industry, which relies on virtualising media pools, the digital video recorder market currently led by TiVo and Replay, and the nascent peer-to-peer model all face technical disruption. How it works Today, CPRM is implemented on DVD and removable SD disks. But the SCSI and ATA/ATAPI proposals incorporate an extension of the scheme to allow the encryption to be used on hard drives, in addition to removable drives and ATAPI devices such as CD-ROMs and DVD drives. The proposal makes use of around a megabyte of read-only storage on each hard drive that isn't usually accessed by the end user for a "Media Key Block". According to research scientist Jeffrey Lotspiech of IBM's Almaden Research Lab, this is a matrix of 16 columns and some 3000 rows. A static "Media Unique Key" in a separate, hidden area of the drive, identifies the individual drive. Making use of broadcast encryption and one way key algorithms, would-be hackers face a daunting number of keys to break. CPRM adds new commands into the ATA specification. But because the system makes use of the physical location on the device of the encrypted item, software designed for non-compliant drives will break in some circumstance when encrypted data files are moved. "It requires both drives to be compliant when data is to move from one disk to another," says Lotspiech. "And a compliant application to get all that data to the new drive". So a hard drive containing small individual containing non-copyable files of say, Gartner reports, will essentially be unrestorable using existing backup programs. Similar problems arise with RAID arrays using IDE disks, acknowledges IBM. "This may help IT managers when auditing for copyright compliance," suggests IBM spokesman Mike Ross. However the decision to make an organisation CPRM compliant. Free copying is no longer an option:- "It's not up to us to determine or guess what the content provider might permit," says Ross. "Nothing will handcuff proper backup and restoring provided the content provider permits it. Some may not permit it - but what will the customers reaction be then?" Well, quite. Clearly key management becomes an urgent priority when CPRM-aware drives are introduced next year, as CPRM-aware content will surely follow. The decision to go with CPRM in an organisation is also an all or nothing proposition - it can't be introduced gradually. But for home users, the party's over. CRPM paves the way for CPRM-compliant audio CDs, and the free exchange of digital recordings will be limited to non-CPRM media. The Register understands there is fierce opposition to the plan from Microsoft and its OEM customers. Generating hundreds of thousands of images each week, the PC industry relies on data going from one master to many reliably and smoothly. Imaging programs face the same problem as restore software: the target disk isn't the same as the originator disk. Microsoft Redmond already has put in a counter-proposal that eschews low-level hardware calls. Where were you when they copy-protected the hardware, Daddy? The intellectual property is owned by the 4C Entity, and administered by License Management International, LLC - a limited liability company based in Morgan Hill, California. Company founder John Hoy told The Register that "LMI,LC holds no intellectual property. Entities are granted a master license." Per-device royalties are payable to LLI,LC. License fees of between 2c and 17c have been mooted for each device, according to documents circulated to the T.13 group. 5c is the current rate for a DVD device. Three possible paths lie ahead. CPRM may be bounced out of the T.x committees. Or manufacturers may choose not to implement it, and opt for an incomplete ATA or SCSI specification. This is deemed unlikely. Or thirdly, manufacturers may choose to implement the new command set, but not activate it. Although it hardly has a prominent media profile - yet - CPRM in hardware is the most comprehensive mechanism for enforcing rights protection the industry has seen, and is likely to be viewed by content producers as a magic bullet. Its progress depends on whether its proponents can overcome industry and consumer opposition. Which might be brewing right about ... now. ----- End forwarded message -----

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27 Dec '00

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by Paul Coleman 27 Dec '00

27 Dec '00

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