Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263990AbTEOMwR (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 08:52:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263994AbTEOMwR (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 08:52:17 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:2944 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263990AbTEOMwP (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 08:52:15 -0400 Message-Id: <200305150646.h4F6kQ9M002128@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: Dean McEwan Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, expiration, verification) NON HAR*D*WARE BASED. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 May 2003 15:22:46 -0000." <20030514152247.4146.qmail@linuxmail.org> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20030514152247.4146.qmail@linuxmail.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1434061136P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 02:46:26 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1305 Lines: 40 --==_Exmh_-1434061136P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 14 May 2003 15:22:46 -0000, Dean McEwan said: > Encrypted binary, in a XML wrapper that needs decryption key from owners site . > Uses port 80... "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer that you've never heard of can render your system inoperable" -- Leslie Lamport You *do* realize that the last company that tried to sell us this sort of scheme is now possibly looking at $2.2 *trillion* in fines because they dorked it up so badly? This assuming that your corporate security officers allow the traffic through the firewall. As Randy Bush likes to say on the NANOG list: "I encourage my competitors to design their networks this way".... --==_Exmh_-1434061136P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE+wzfCcC3lWbTT17ARAqfpAJ0bgqdXxcSjPBfIcnQ+39tEkpLYogCgsUF7 4mM7rsTRtdWDhVgTmR+hyH4= =1A+D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1434061136P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/