-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <3.0.3.32.19971203195235.006e7318@popd.netcruiser>, on 12/03/97 at 07:52 PM, Jonathan Wienke <JonWienk@ix.netcom.com> said:
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At 07:27 PM 12/3/97 -0500, Robert Hettinga wrote:
Yet Another Watermark...
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From: "Blair Anderson" <blair@technologist.com>
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Persistent Cryptographic Wrappers (RightsWrapper) - No matter where the digital document (financial newsletter, educational test, minutes from a court proceeding, sensitive health care records, etc.) goes, no matter how it gets there, whether it is used and then subsequently redistributed, etc. the document is always encrypted. It is never left decrypted and exposed even while it is being viewed.
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Metering and Enforcement (RightsClient) - Provides decryption services, meters use, and sends usage information to the RightsServer via secure middleware.
"It is never left decrypted and exposed" but the software "Provides decryption services." Doesn't this sound oxymoronic? These guys need help.
I think the point they were trying to make was the data is not left in the clear on the storage media (this is typical marketing droids at work). For practical reason data must be in the clear in memory at some point in time. Also the data must be transferred into some type of peripheral so the user can do somthing with the data (read text off a monitor, print a document, listen to music, ...ect). This is the biggest failings in these systems. Once the user has the ability to decrypt the data the game is lost. One does not need to break the crypto system as they give you the keys with the product!! Will this prevent John doe from giving a copy of the document to a friend?? Nope as he will just give the friend the passphrase (or what ever mechanism they use) along with the copy. Will this prevent the Warez groups?? It may slow them down some but it woun't get rid of them. Will it stop commercial pirating?? HAH!! It will not even slow it down, a minor inconvenience at best. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNIY+X49Co1n+aLhhAQKngwP9Eb0LH0DiLVixgF8S+GjOF8X2YPyaI0wj YctNtPKDUa76zMgZQGNVU3okcgmjSv2O09lanuA2pHAufUejHq/tJQiF423lGkqI 2bg7mUhCEPCmnYoPNpagvsvEsR2vPmnQfg9SPBzEOB5UGkVvrW8j/9Vw077zrVKv 5ZhVFWE4cAI= =FywU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----