On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Harish Pillay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Folks -
>
> I think it is a false alarm.  The method (look at the zip file and
> view the file called
> specifications with claims file (a .tiff file) in evince or something
> not an image viewer
> because you will not see the pages), is really about having some PGP
> embedded
> in the image/video/photo/logo/trademark etc that will be authenticated.
>  One
> needs a browser plugin as well as server software.  A reasonably
> clever idea, IMHO,
> but completely useless in practical terms.
>
> People, including me, jumped on the headlines without checking the claims
> first.
> Now that I have read the specs, I think it is has been a wasted morning.
>

in that case, though, who did they send that "invoice" to that you link to
in http://harishpillay.livejournal.com/107164.html? these guys (the
"invoicee") actually implemented that?

-jf

--
In the meantime, here is your PSA:
"It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not
help."
-- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
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