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Re: The MS DRM Patent and Freedom to Speak and Think
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Sun Dec 16 08:45:44 2001
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 06:36:09 +1300 (NZDT)
Message-ID: <200112151736.GAA17031@ruru.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com, dbs@philodox.com,
dcsb@ai.mit.edu, rah@shipwright.com
>Microsoft's patent for a Digital Rights Management
>Operating System was awarded yesterday:
>
> http://cryptome.org/ms-drm-os.htm
>
>A digital rights management operating system protects
>rights-managed data, such as downloaded content, from
>access by untrusted programs while the data is loaded
>into memory or on a page file as a result of the
>execution of a trusted application that accesses the
>memory. To protect the rights-managed data resident in
>memory, the digital rights management operating system
>refuses to load an untrusted program into memory while
>the trusted application is executing or removes the
>data from memory before loading the untrusted program.
>[...]
I wonder how long it'll take for someone to locate the undocumented _MPAAKEY
which exists alongside MS's documented one?
Peter.
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