Ok, so let's have it. I've been hearing a lot of speculation about Paladium, especially since it is being lead by Microsoft.
1) Would Paladium be capable of inhibiting the use of technologies such as CD -> MP3 ripping, DVD -> VCD ripping, video-editing, audio-editing, etc?? (as proposed earlier this year as a solution for RIAA and MPAA)? 2) Would these "API's" be made open and available for competing OSes? Being headed up by Microsoft sure does put an evil slant on the project, even if it COULD be a good thing. The biggest problems with an embedded encryption chip are twofold IMHO: *) What happens to older hardware? MB's without the chip, would they still be able to use tomorrow's software,a nd if so, how many more tomorrows would they be good for? *) Will it do any good? If we stick encrpytion technology on a chip and embed it in the systemboard for speed, obviously there is a "Decryption" portion to that. Being that Microsoft has proven it's inability to securely do ANYTHING, who's to say that we won't create a system that cracks security FASTER than before? My view has been that we are in the middle of a quasi-balanced system about as stable as inflation: We make things secure, Processor's get faster, we make things "more secure" (ie, more processing to encrypt, mor processing to crack), Processors/Memory get faster, more secure, faster, more secure.... Unfortunately, along with CPU's and other codec processors, networks need to be faster to handle the larger payload for encrypted traffic as well as the connection setup, etc... Computers are probably about as fast as they will get, provided we keep encrypting our information. Soon, we'll be encrypting almost ALL of our information, which will make this phenominon more visible. I daresay that any chip which will allow us to encrypt/decrypt data faster will almost certainly be found to allow us to crack encryption more rapidly as well. This is yet another ploy by Microsoft to appear to be doing something about the problem... unfortunately, they ARE the problem. They should be focusing on their own insecure code and protocols instead of playing the political games like Paladium. Of more interest is whether they will attempt to get the governmentally proposed code into these chips so that we can't play DVD's or rip our CD's anymore. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
