Virtuallizing Palladium
Ben Laurie
ben at algroup.co.uk
Wed Jul 17 06:43:47 PDT 2002
Nomen Nescio wrote:
> Ben Laurie wrote:
>
>>Albion Zeglin wrote:
>>
>>>Similar to DeCSS, only one Palladium chip needs to be reverse engineered and
>>>it's key(s) broken to virtualize the machine.
>>
>>If you break one machine's key:
>>
>>a) You won't need to virtualise it
>>
>>b) It won't be getting any new software licensed to it
>
>
> This is true, if you do like DeCSS and try to publish software with the
> key in it. The content consortium will put the cert for that key onto
> a CRL, and the key will stop working.
>
> The other possibility is to simply keep the key secret and use it to strip
> DRM protection from content, then release the now-free data publicly.
> This will work especially well if the companies offer free downloads of
> content with some kind of restrictions that you can strip off. If you
> have to pay for each download before you can release it for free, then
> you better be a pretty generous guy.
>
> Or maybe you can get paid for your efforts. This could be the true
> killer app for anonymous e-cash.
Heh. Cool!
Cheers,
Ben.
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