[ILUG] Question on an encryption system (using OSS)

[Braun Brelin]

It's not designed to be foolproof, just enough to make the barrier to 
copying high enough to satisfy the big media boys...

I know that DRM is essentially a no-win proposition, but until the 
thickheads at Sony, Paramount, etc figure that out, there's not much I can 
do. 

Braun


On 9/13/05, Paul Jakma <paul at clubi.ie> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Braun Brelin wrote:
> 
> > The concept is that I want people to be able to download the files,
> > but, if they want to view them, then they have to go through me to
> > get the key. The reason I want to use P2P is so that I don't have
> > to eat the costs of transferring the data. Braun
> 
> How much do you care about the key being common and ending up on P2P?
> :) Even if you figure out a way to do it, what about the user putting
> the decrypted file on P2P?
> 
> Some other model, which does not rely on the file itself to keep
> users honest, may be other - as someone else pointed out.
> 
> regards,
> --
> Paul Jakma paul at clubi.ie paul at jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A
> Fortune:
> Information Processing:
> What you call data processing when people are so disgusted with
> it they won't let it be discussed in their presence.
>