Re: Microsoft's Jihad - Palladium
From: Barry Margolin (barmar@genuity.net)Date: 06/28/02
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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 14:54:17 GMT
In article <tsegfa.7ab.ln@innovative.iinet.net.au>,
Bernd Felsche <bernie@innovative.iinet.net.au> wrote:
>srt@nospam.unt.edu writes:
>
>>Geoff Lane <zzassgl@twirl.mcc.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>>> In article <afchaf$25g$1@hermes.acs.unt.edu> you wrote:
>>>> And if there are cryptographic keys embedded in the hardware,
>>>> and they don't tell you what they are, how do you plan on
>>>> emulating the hardware?
>
>>> CSS made the same assumption and lasted, what? six months?
>
>>It was a software implementation that was broken. Unless they're
>>complete idiots (no comment) they will not allow any software
>>implementations of this.
>
>What do you mean by "allow"? You mean as in prohibit?
>Using that mechanism is simply naive.
>
>Or do you mean having a piece of hardware whose data transforms
>cannot be modelled and hence cannot be implemented in software?
I haven't read any of the technical details about Palladium, but presumably
there will only be a single source for the cryptographic keys. While they
can't technically prevent someone from purchasing keys and then
incorporating them into a software implementation, they can probably
*legally* do it. The contract you sign when you get the keys could
stipulate how you may use them.
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