We failed to save a copy of Steven Levy's Palladium article in Newsweek and online at MSNBC, now withdrawn by MSNBC. We can find no copy online. Whoever save a copy: we would like to receive it for publication to assure its continued availability.
A Microsoft programmer, John DeTreville, named in the alleged "Palladium" patent published on Cryptome, has written us (copy below) to deny the ms-drm-os patent is Palladium -- which he claims is based on another patent or several of them. We would appreciate leads on which patent or patents he is referring to. Thanks. ----- Subject: Correction to cryptome.org Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 17:07:45 -0700 From: "John DeTreville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Are you a good contact person for the information on the Microsoft DRM patent (6,330,670) on cryptome.org? The pages linked from http://cryptome.org/ms-drm-os.htm say that the authors of this patent (England, DeTreville, and Lampson) were identified by Newsweek as Palladium programmers. I can reliably state that I (DeTreville) am not a Palladium programmer, and neither is Butler Lampson. I believe that the Newsweek article was referring to a different patent. I'm sure that the Palladium participants jointly hold a significant number of important patents in the field of computer security. Cheers, John ----- John's message has been added to the file at: http://cryptome.org/ms-drm-os.htm
