Ben Laurie wrote:
Albion Zeglin wrote:
Similar to DeCSS, only one Palladium chip needs to be reverse engineered and it's key(s) broken to virtualize the machine.
If you break one machine's key:
a) You won't need to virtualise it
b) It won't be getting any new software licensed to it
This is true, if you do like DeCSS and try to publish software with the key in it. The content consortium will put the cert for that key onto a CRL, and the key will stop working. The other possibility is to simply keep the key secret and use it to strip DRM protection from content, then release the now-free data publicly. This will work especially well if the companies offer free downloads of content with some kind of restrictions that you can strip off. If you have to pay for each download before you can release it for free, then you better be a pretty generous guy. Or maybe you can get paid for your efforts. This could be the true killer app for anonymous e-cash.