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Re: TPM coming to Canada
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Thu Apr 3 13:43:57 2003
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From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com, mctylr@privacy.nb.ca
M Taylor <mctylr@privacy.nb.ca> writes:
>It appears that TPM is being seriously considered by Copyright Policy Branch
>of Canadian Heritage, and has announced a paper by Dr. Ian Kerr and others.
><http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/ac-ca/progs/pda-cpb/pubs/protection/index_e.cfm>
>
>It mentions a nice top heavy certificate rich method or a DMCA like law as
>two TPMs that might work in their opinion.
>
>[...]
>
>I'm afraid I'll have to start writing letters to government and non-
>government groups to inform them of issues beyond revenue control issues
>(like creator's rights and consumer protection).
A better suggestion for killing it: Write letters strongly encouraging the
PKI-based method.
Peter.
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