Ray Dillinger wrote:
Does anyone feel that I have said anything untrue?
Can anyone point me at good information uses I can use to help prove
the case to a bunch of skeptics who are considering throwing away
their hard-earned money on a scheme that, in light of security
experience, seems
If you've already explained to them that what they are trying to do is
both impossible and pointless, and they still want your consulting
services, take as much of their money as you can and don't feel bad
about it! Maybe you can get some more people on this list hired, too :)
/ji
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 18:49 -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
It's a little hard to help without knowing more about the situation.
I.e. is this a software company? Hardware? Music? Movies?
Documents? E-Books?
It's a software company.
Is it trying to prevent access to something, or
the
John Gilmore wrote:
It's only the DRM fanatics whose installed bases of customers
are mentally locked-in despite the crappy user experience (like
the brainwashed hordes of Apple users, or the Microsoft victims)
who are troublesome. In such cases, the community should
I assume the Apple
On Tue, 26 May 2009, James Muir wrote:
There is some academic work on how to protect crypto in software from
reverse engineering. Look-up white-box cryptography.
Disclosure: the company I work for does white-box crypto.
Could you explain what is the point of white-box cryptography (even
if
The introduction of the acronym DRM has drawn all the hysteria it
always does.
The description you've posted much more closely matches license (or
sometimse entitlement) management software than DRM. There are many
companies active in this field. Many are small, but Microsoft sells
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Darren J Moffat darren.mof...@sun.com wrote:
John Gilmore wrote:
It's only the DRM fanatics whose installed bases of customers
are mentally locked-in despite the crappy user experience (like
the brainwashed hordes of Apple users, or the Microsoft victims)
who
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Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
However, it also sounds like they are shifting the
burden of proof. Shouldn't they convince you (whoever they make the DRM
for) that their system is working? Have we really reached a
This is getting a bit far afield from cryptography, but proper threat
analysis is still relevant.
On May 27, 2009, at 4:07 AM, Ray Dillinger wrote:
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 18:49 -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
It's a little hard to help without knowing more about the situation.
I.e. is this a
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 10:31 -0400, Roland Dowdeswell wrote:
I have noticed in my years as a security practitioner, that in my
experience non-security people seem to assume that a system is
perfectly secure until it is demonstrated that it is not with an
example of an exploit. Until an
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