Adam Back says: >Providing almost no hardware defenses while going to extra-ordinary >efforts to provide top notch software defenses doesn't make sense if >the machine owner is a threat.
So maybe the Palladium folks really mean it when they say the purpose of Palladium is not to enable DRM? I doubt it, though. Even a paper-thin shred of hardware protection is enough to prevent 99% of the people from circumventing DRM technology. Joe Sixpack isn't going to install a mod chip, and his local computer store can't do it for him for fear of prosecution for circumventing copyright protection. If the appliance enforces DRM when you buy it, that's good enough to guarantee revenue to the copyright holders. In the US, at least. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
