Well, I’m using the term “debate” loosely here because it seems to me, given the marshalled evidence, there isn’t much of a debate to be had, but in any case, Microsoft has responded to Peter Gutmann’s cost analysis of the DRM subsystems in Windows Vista (of which I’d written about earlier), and also in system […]
Peter Gutmann has just published a fairly detailed examination of Windows Vista Content Protection. It is highly recommended reading in that it has non-trivial implications for essentially all personal computer users of any stripe…
A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
Note that this analysis dovetails with Bruce Schneier’s overall “DRM is futile” piece from 2001…
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Ok, so if yer hip to cryptography at least some, then you know that to do truly strong crypto, one needs a source of very random numbers. This is not all that easy, it turns out. If you’re unaware of this little subtle-but-way-important detail, check out Ross Anderson’s book Security Engineering and Bruce Schneier’s Applied […]