27 Jul
2001
27 Jul
'01
8:07 p.m.
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 06:36:53PM -0400, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote: [..]
If you read the language carefully, you will see that 1201g only permits *circumvention* as part of cryptographic research (and then only under limited circumstances). There is nothing in the law that allows publication of results.
Even the recent Shamir, et. al. paper on RC4 and WEP could arguably violate DMCA. WEP could be considered a TPM since it protects copyrighted works (e.g. e-mail). More importantly RC4 could be used in some other copy protection system that we don't know about
Like an Adobe product- PDF uses RC4 for it's "password protection". Eric