perl OpenPGP posted at CPAN
Benjamin Trott mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] has posted the Crypt::OpenPGP module (v0.11) at CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Crypt-OpenPGP-0.11 because Of *course* the world needed a pure-Perl PGP implementation. According to the ReadMe including support for all versions of PGP and GnuPG. - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Effective and ineffective technological measures
-- From: Alan Barrett[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] The DMCA said: 1201(a)(1)(A): No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. What does effectively mean here? If it has its plain english meaning, then one could argue that ROT13, CSS (and anything else that can easily be broken) are *ineffective* technological measures, so circumventing them is not prohibited by this clause. Distinguishing effective measures from ineffective measures might reduce to measuring the resources required to break them. Or does the clause really mean No person shall circumvent a technological measure that *purports to control* access to a work protected under this title? --apb (Alan Barrett) Take a look at Sklyarov's presentation: http://www.treachery.net/~jdyson/ebooks/ and especially http://www.treachery.net/~jdyson/ebooks/slide11.html The listed company allegedly puts ROT13 in a dongle, and then encrypts documents for $3000 a pop. [In fairness, I can't confirm this from their own website, and I suspect that they are just 'protecting' their own investor reports]. but read the whole Sklyarov presentation - this is not the most fraudulent form of 'protection' being foisted on naive e-publishers. Peter Trei - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Company Awarded Patent for Digital Tickets (was Re: GigaLaw.comDaily News, July 30, 2001)
At 4:17 AM -0700 on 7/30/01, GigaLaw.com wrote: [PATENTS] Company Awarded Patent for Digital Tickets Digital rights management company ContentGuard said it has received a patent for a digital ticket, which lets copyright holders distribute and track people's access to digital goods such as music, video, e-books and images. Bethesda, Md.-based ContentGuard, which is backed by Xerox and Microsoft, said the digital ticket is similar to the way a ticket in the physical world allows people to gain access to a concert or a baseball game. Read the article: ZDNet News @ http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,7407,2799368,00.html?chkpt=p1bn Further reading on GigaLaw.com: What is a Business-Method Patent? @ http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2001/kirsch-2001-05-p1.html -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Company Awarded Patent for Digital Tickets (wasRe: GigaLaw.com Daily News, July 30, 2001)
I discuss this in both editiions of _Digital Cash_. I wonder if this is prior art that reads against the patent. -Peter - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
