It seems clear at least if DRM is an application than DRM applications would benefit
from the increased trust and architecturally that such trust would be needed to
enforce/ensure some/all of the requirements of the Hollings bill.
hawk
Lucky Green wrote:
other
technical solution that
For those who question the use of the TCPA spec as part of a DRM
system, I refer you to the following article where the author
interviewed Jim Ward of IBM (one of the authors of the TCPA spec) --
http://www.101com.com/solutions/security/article.asp?ArticleID=3266
In particular, note the
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Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:53:42 -0700
From: Paul Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ross's TCPA paper
To: R. A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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on 6/23/02 6:50 AM, R. A. Hettinga at [EMAIL
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:15:29AM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
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Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:53:42 -0700
From: Paul Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ross's TCPA paper
To: R. A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The
important question is not whether trusted platforms are a good
Ross Anderson wrote:
... that means making sure the PC is the hub of the
future home network; and if entertainment's the killer app, and DRM is
the key technology for entertainment, then the PC must do DRM.
Recently there have been a number of articles pointing out how much
money Microsoft
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Amir Herzberg wrote:
This is not as simple as one may expect. X.509 has a hierarchy mechanism
designed for allowing organizations issue (or at least control)
certificates of departments and employees - the Distinguished Name (DN)
and its keywords. However, browsers
The amazing thing about this discussion is that there are two pieces
of conventional wisdom which people in the cypherpunk/EFF/freedom
communities adhere to, and they are completely contradictory.
The first is that protection of copyright is ultimately impossible.
See the analysis in Schneier
Ross Anderson writes:
During my investigations into TCPA, I learned that HP has started a
development program to produce a TCPA-compliant version of GNU/linux.
I couldn't figure out how they planned to make money out of this. On
Thursday, at the Open Source Software Economics conference, I
Jay D. Dyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Bram Cohen wrote:
Of course, the TCPA has nothing to do with security or privacy, since
those are OS-level things. All it can really do is ensure you're running
a particular OS.
It's amazing the TCPA isn't raising all kinds of red flags
