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Re: Criminalizing crypto criticism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Murray)
Sat Jul 28 13:34:39 2001
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:26:59 -0700
From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
To: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
Cc: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>,
David Jablon <dpj@world.std.com>, Matt Blaze <mab@research.att.com>,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Message-ID: <20010727162659.C19865@slack.lne.com>
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In-Reply-To: <v04210103b7879b206c55@[24.218.56.235]>; from reinhold@world.std.com on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 06:36:53PM -0400
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 06:36:53PM -0400, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote:
[..]
>
> If you read the language carefully, you will see that 1201g only
> permits *circumvention* as part of cryptographic research (and then
> only under limited circumstances). There is nothing in the law that
> allows publication of results.
>
> Even the recent Shamir, et. al. paper on RC4 and WEP could arguably
> violate DMCA. WEP could be considered a TPM since it protects
> copyrighted works (e.g. e-mail). More importantly RC4 could be used
> in some other copy protection system that we don't know about
Like an Adobe product- PDF uses RC4 for it's "password protection".
Eric
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