[OT][Almost OT] A Cost Analysis of Windows VISTA Content Protection

2006-12-21 Thread Orr Dunkelman
An interesting view with respect to the VISTA's content protection scheme. http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt Executive Summary - Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called

Re: [OT][Almost OT] A Cost Analysis of Windows VISTA Content Protection

2006-12-21 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On 12/21/06, Orr Dunkelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An interesting view with respect to the VISTA's content protection scheme. http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt Quickly skimming over this document, it looks like a piece of journalism rather than a cost analysis it

Re: [OT][Almost OT] A Cost Analysis of Windows VISTA Content Protection

2006-12-21 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 10:31:52PM +0200, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: If anything, I was expecting digits showing the performance degradation (if there's anything like that) from running in a hypervisor or with the newfangled IO-MMUs. Funny you should mention that, we're working on a paper on