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Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Rose)
Mon Sep 16 22:50:24 2002
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 10:12:25 +1000
To: AARG!Anonymous <remailer@aarg.net>
From: Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com>
Cc: ggr@qualcomm.com, cryptography@wasabisystems.com
In-Reply-To: <a1020460bf5f784c6f5af1822e7b1e50@aarg.net>
At 04:47 PM 9/16/2002 -0700, AARG! Anonymous wrote:
> From what has been said by Microsoft about Palladium, it is not true that
>Pd prevents users from auditing the program. While it is on the disk,
>the program is an ordinary file and not encrypted [1]. This will allow
>it to be disassembled and inspected.
... and how long before someone realises that it can be a five line
program, that says "load this 3 Mb buffer from this encrypted data file,
then jump to it"?
You also didn't address the point that the user's copy of the auditable
data is no longer accessible to the user, making a mockery of the audit
process.
Your rebuttal lacks substance. The issue is loss of control and accountability.
Greg.
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