[3540] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Security scheme for e-books
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andreas Bogk)
Sun Oct 25 03:27:23 1998
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 03:55:44 +0100
From: Andreas Bogk <ich@andreas.org>
To: John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com>, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.981023221108.8261E-100000@ivan.iecc.com>; from John R Levine on Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 10:19:06PM -0400
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 10:19:06PM -0400, John R Levine wrote:
> I suppose if I were a bad guy, I could make rogue blank cartridges with
> serial numbers of all zeros, which would let me read out a book from one cart
> and copy it to one of the rogue cartridges. But it seems to me that if you
> need rogue cartridges to pirate $20 books, it's probably secure enough.
If you can copy it from one cartridge to the other, you can copy it from
the cartridge to a computer as easily. Then you only need one rewritable
cartridge, and can upload whatever pirated book you want to read that day.
In other words, I wouldn't build a business on it.
Andreas
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