[91398] in Cypherpunks
Re: Superdistribution development/release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Thu Dec 4 18:43:04 1997
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<Pine.BSF.3.96.971204051052.9060A-100000@pakastelohi.cypherpunks.to>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 09:34:16 -0800
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>,
Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
From: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
At 5:16 AM +0100 12/4/1997, Lucky Green wrote:
>On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Robert Hettinga wrote:
>>=20
>> Persistent Cryptographic Wrappers (RightsWrapper) - No matter where the
>> digital document (financial newsletter, educational test, minutes from a
>> court proceeding, sensitive health care records, etc.) goes, no matter
>> how it gets there, whether it is used and then subsequently
>> redistributed, etc. the document is always encrypted. It is never left
>> decrypted and exposed even while it is being viewed.
>
>They have lost their mind. Since humans are notoriously bad at performing
>decryptions in their head in real time, whatever is sent to the display
>*must* be cleartext. Any competent programmer can grab it at that point.
Undoubetedly there will be attempts to create display chips with built-in=
decryption and special display and/or raster/vectorizing approaches which=
are comfortably viewed but are difficult to snap shot using "screen=
shooters" or simple capture hardware. With the new USB and FireWire=
interface standards this isn't too far fetched. All, as you say probably=
doomed to failure.
--Steve
