Re: [backstage] Re: User Agent/Referrer Verification

2010-03-09 Thread Iain Wallace
Aside from that, the key really is the resource, which you'd somehow need to protect in order to stop invalid user agents just spoofing all this info. In that respect it's very similar to swf verify, which doesn't work. I should say: I deliberately didn’t ask for a cryptographic critique.

Re: [backstage] Re: User Agent/Referrer Verification

2010-03-09 Thread Iain Wallace
I'm trying to work out if this thread is a genuine idea being proposed or if it was simply to highlight the futility of SWF Verification. If it was the latter: Well demonstrated! ;) On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Paul Webster p...@dabdig.com wrote: And for practical purposes ... the UserAgent

[backstage] Free films in 1080p?

2010-03-09 Thread Kieran Kunhya
We're going to be committing Blu-Ray compatible encoding in x264 soon, which will be the first open-source Blu-Ray compatible encoder, and we plan to release a free downloadable Blu-Ray image to coincide with this. We really don't want to release something like Big Buck Bunny or Elephants Dream

Re: [backstage] Re: User Agent/Referrer Verification

2010-03-09 Thread Paul Webster
And for practical purposes ... the UserAgent field changes with version updates. So - as software gets updated it would mean that the back-end would also have to go through the library and re-generate keys for old material (or recalculate it on the fly on access). Taking just an invariable

Re: [backstage] Free films in 1080p?

2010-03-09 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 13:00, Kieran Kunhya kie...@kunhya.com wrote: We're going to be committing Blu-Ray compatible encoding in x264 soon, which will be the first open-source Blu-Ray compatible encoder, and we plan to release a free downloadable Blu-Ray image to coincide with this. We really

Re: [backstage] Re: User Agent/Referrer Verification

2010-03-09 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 14:23, Paul Webster p...@dabdig.com wrote: And for practical purposes ... the UserAgent field changes with version updates. You would think, wouldn’t you… So - as software gets updated it would mean that the back-end would also have to go through the library and

Re: [backstage] Re: User Agent/Referrer Verification

2010-03-09 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 14:23, Iain Wallace ikwall...@gmail.com wrote: It's the access to the referrer part that I don't understand. Why is it any harder for an invalid client to access it than a valid one? This is locking the door and then putting the key under the mat. Once everyone realises

Re: [backstage] Re: User Agent/Referrer Verification

2010-03-09 Thread Iain Wallace
I think I replied from an address which isn't registered with the list earlier, so here's what I said again: The fact that this is all presumably going to be sent in the clear as opposed to encrypted means this would be technically very easy to reverse engineer. Aside from that, the key really is

Re: [backstage] Re: User Agent/Referrer Verification

2010-03-09 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 13:50, Iain Wallace ikwall...@gmail.com wrote: I think I replied from an address which isn't registered with the list earlier, so here's what I said again: The fact that this is all presumably going to be sent in the clear as opposed to encrypted means this would be

Sita was: [backstage] Free films in 1080p?

2010-03-09 Thread Jonathan Chetwynd
I had tried to get Sita released in SVG format. unfortunately Nina wasn't happy with SVG output from Adobe source files, in particular some transparencies are lost in the conversion, and there doesn't appear to be a work around. . regards Jonathan On 9 Mar 2010, at 13:21, Mo McRoberts