At 11:10 AM -0700 10/28/05, James A. Donald wrote:
I am a reluctant convert to DRM. At least with DRM, we face a smaller number of threats.
I have had it explained to me, many times more than I want to remember, :-), that strong crypto is strong crypto. It's not that I'm unconvinceable, but I'm still unconvinced, on the balance. OTOH, if markets overtake the DRM issue, as most cypherpunks I've talked to think, then we still have lots of leftover installed crypto to play around with. Cheers, RAH Who still thinks that digital proctology is not the same thing as financial cryptography. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'