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Re: Cryptography Research wants piracy speed bump on HD DVDs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Taral)
Wed Dec 22 15:58:28 2004

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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:24:59 -0600
From: Taral <taral@taral.net>
To: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
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On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:58:11AM -0600, Matt Crawford wrote:
>=20
> On Dec 15, 2004, at 11:54, Taral wrote:
>=20
> >What stops someone using 3 players and majority voting on frame data
> >bits?
>=20
> As I understand it, they use such a huge number of bits for marking,=20
> that any reasonably-sized assembly of players will still coincide on=20
> some marked bits.
> (However, I very much doubt whether they can blacklist all the players=20
> in the assembly without blacklisting some "innocent" players as well!)

Is there really that much space for marking? Any substantial number of
marked bits will become obvious in the output stream, no?

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