At 10:25 AM 7/27/2001 -0700, Tim May wrote:
I think the threatened suit under the terms of the DCMA goes to the point the original poster made: that the way to stop cryptanalysis of a cipher ("Digital Snake Oil Bass-O-Mattic Encryptator 1.0"), or at least the publication of any results, is to do what was done to Felten.
To further illustrate this effect, a brief summary of the background for the Felten suit might be of interest: 1. RIAA/SDMI invite people to break their new copy protection 2. Copy protection breaks are identified in peer-reviewed academic paper 3. Attorney who is Sr VP at RIAA and Secretary of SDMI threatens suit against researchers after seeing pre-press copy of paper 4. Paper is withdrawn from conference, not published 5. Researchers sue for declaratory relief that they *can* publish 6. RIAA/SDMI says they weren't going to sue, tries to dismiss researchers' suit due to lack of controversy for court to adjudicate -- Greg Broiles gbroiles@well.com "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids