[Cdn-DMCA] On the Sklyarov case

[farrellj]

On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Alan DeKok wrote:

>   Go back to 1949:
>
> 	C. Shannon, "Communications Theory of Secrecy Systems", Bell Systems
> 	Technical Journal (1949), pp. 656-715.
>
>
>   Shannon applied information theory to prove that the only
> unbreakable system was one which involved one-time pads.
>
>   If the content "protection" people don't know this, then they're
> incompetent.  If they do know this, then they're guilty of lying to
> everyone about the usefulness of their product.  That's another item
> in consumer protection laws: The product MUST be useful for it's
> intended purpose and use.  If it isn't, then the customer can get
> legal redress from the vendor.

	I wonder if that paper given at CRYPTO'01 last year about how
software based DRM is mathematically impossible is comming to a similar
conclusion as above mentioned paper, I don't have the math skills to compare
them...being dyslexic ruined my aim to be an astronaut :-(

	The URL of the paper's abstract, and link to the Postscript version
of the paper is:

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~boaz/Papers/obfuscate.html

And the Slashdot discussion:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/01/0344227&mode=thread&tid=93

ttyl
     Farrell

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