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RE: Effective and ineffective technological measures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Fri Aug 3 14:24:55 2001
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 18:53:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
To: Paul Onions <Paul_Onions@siliconinfusion.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Paul Onions wrote:
> Indeed, my reading of the following extract defining 'encryption research'
> in the DMCA seems to indicate that it is easier to prosecute someone for
> exposing a vulnarability in a weak system than for a stronger system.
>
> `(1) DEFINITIONS- For purposes of this subsection--
>
> `(A) the term `encryption research' means activities necessary to
> identify and analyze flaws and vulnerabilities of encryption
> technologies applied to copyrighted works, if these activities are
> conducted to advance the state of knowledge in the field of encryption
> technology or to assist in the development of encryption products; and
>
> `(B) the term `encryption technology' means the scrambling and
> descrambling of information using mathematical formulas or algorithms.
>
> The reasoning being that exposing a vulnerability in a weak system will not
> 'advance the state of knowledge in the field of encryption technology'.
It seems to me there is another loop-hole...
"...encryption technologies applied to copyrighted works." If one can
discuss the subject such that the applications never come up, in other
words you're not drawing somebody a roadmap to crack.
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