>Microsoft's patent for a Digital Rights Management >Operating System was awarded yesterday: > > http://cryptome.org/ms-drm-os.htm > >A digital rights management operating system protects >rights-managed data, such as downloaded content, from >access by untrusted programs while the data is loaded >into memory or on a page file as a result of the >execution of a trusted application that accesses the >memory. To protect the rights-managed data resident in >memory, the digital rights management operating system >refuses to load an untrusted program into memory while >the trusted application is executing or removes the >data from memory before loading the untrusted program. >[...]
I wonder how long it'll take for someone to locate the undocumented _MPAAKEY which exists alongside MS's documented one? Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
