"R. A. Hettinga" wrote: > > At 5:54 PM -0700 on 2/1/02, EDUCAUSE wrote: > > > DIGITAL WATERMARKING MAKES INTERNET VIDEO SPLASH > > Purdue University researchers have found a way to ensure > > Internet-delivered video maintains its watermark and keeps > > channel disturbance to a minimum, protecting the content from > > copyright infringement and hackers. Purdue professor of computer > > engineering Edward Delp said the technique allows for > > resynchronization at the receiving end that can decipher and > > piece together Internet video streams that are often chopped > > and mixed up while traveling over noisy networks. The result, > > said Delp, is the integrity of the watermark and image, while > > the stream is still delivered in real time. Traditional methods > > of piecing together Internet-delivered content largely do not > > work for audio and video, he added. The technique also helps > > guard against hackers because of the way it controls channel > > disturbance, and could also be used to decipher terrorist > > messages embedded in Internet-delivered video. > > (NewsFactor Network, 31 January 2002)
Yeah right, and it makes coffee and will prevent kiddyporn, too. Oh, did they mention that it also does biometrics through your mouse? Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]