Who cares...it's a public key. It's only used for ENCRYPTION...not decryption. Say sombody steels your public key....then tries to buy a movie, unless they stole the DVD player with it and tortured you to get your passphrase it would be useless to them.
After thinking a bit about public private keypair I was thinking the best way to keep people from pirating would be to burn the DVD for the consumer IN THE STORE.
I'm sure there are lots of holes in this...but what do you think?
1. Consumer buys DVD player that "generates" a unique public/private keypair with a passphrase the consuerm enteres when they first hook the unit up and provides it to to the consumer (bundle a USB stick or something with the unit and engineer the unit to write to the stick). The private key is stored on into rom on the player.
2. The consumer takes their USB stick to the DVD store and wants a copy of a DVD. The store has a high speed burner. They take the public key on the consumer's USB stick, and encrypt the burned DVD using the consumers public key. The public key could be stored on the DVD store database for future reference if needed so the consumer would not have to bring the stick back for future purchases.
3. The movie could be altered slightly when burned...with some sort of numeric code within the movie video identifying the original purchaser (how could you do this?..Is it possible?)
4. If somebody decrypts a movie using their private key and it ends up on the internet, you would not be able to stop it, but you could find the original purchaser and come down on them like a ton of bricks to "make an example".
Of course this only works with physical media...or maybe not.
Increase the end max size of the movie after compression from 700 to 2 Gig as your upper size range and you can have full DVD quality with 5.1 AC3 surround sound using Xvid or DiVX as your compression codec.
Sure...but just about everbody has a DVD/CDROM reader.
With one of the MPEG 4 codecs (Xvid/DiVX..ect..) you can EASILY get full DVD quality with 5.1 surround sound on a 4.8GB DVD.
Hmm...IF I were somebody who wanted to download a movie and I had broadband I would MUCH rather have a full quality DiVX or XVID at about the 2 GB file size than 700 Meg. The quality is far superior.
Back in my C-64 days, I knew a guy who tried to copy everything he got his hands on. Not that he used any of it, or even distributed it.
It was the thrill of trying to break the copy protection, of finding the "cRaK" to pirate the software.
He even went so far to paint his 1541 disk drive with "War Copy" paint....truely over the edge.
The thrill for these people is like breaking a code somebody else devised, it's an Ego booster. And like drugs that give you pleasure, it's addictive.
The process of getting the latest movie in the best quality on a 700MB CD (with DVD's so cheap..WHY do they continue to want to fit it on 700 MB CD's!) and getting it done first is somewhat similar.
I think MS has finally admitted that until windoze can match *nix (LINUX, UNIX, OS X) in the distributed computing sphere, research is not going to touch their stuff.
Fact of the matter is they have a pretty hard uphill battle ahead of them. The research computing community is as pro-linux and UNIX as any zealot here on slashdot.
Nearly the entire U.S. goverment uses UNIX (mostly LINUX actually) within the supercomputing realm. DOE and NSF's supercomputing centers all run LINUX.
We'll know how serious they are by their presence at the next supercomputing conference.
Even though it never seems to pan out, the only wire that currently goes to 99.99999 of all houses and can carry more bandwidth (theoretically) than two thin little copper telephone wires are electrical power cables.
Fiber will never be pulled to rural America. Cable companies already refuse to pull cable to rural areas. Wireless is a problem in the mountains, and Satelight is high latency and bandwidth limited. Power is mandated by law to be pulled to your house no matter how far off into the sticks you live.
The question is when.....TV over those same lines is a no brainer
I use Jetable.org (time expiring email relay addressess) to when signing up or doing something that I might suspect might get me on a spam list. This way email get's sent to my gmail (or any other account) for a limited time and if the spammer gets a hold of the jetable email address, it just expires after a set time period. VERY useful!
Send jobs to India. Ads all over your service. Odd billing. Creators of Gnutella. Destroyers of WinAmp. Creators of NSIS. Nightmare employees on the phone (they sound really scared).
And landfills full of coasters (CDs). Oh and the mother of all Crappy mergers for WB but the best for AOL.
They are all over the map. Do the people who run it know anything except how to sell dialup to new computer users? Everything else they touch turns to poo.
It just occured to me, I wonder if there are any self-learning algorythms that could be adapted to traffic lights. Imagine a light (or a group of lights) controlled by a central system that learns from traffic patterns over time and becomes better at managing lights due to experience.
I remember back in the 80's a quote by a former Commodore computer exec.. "Computers for the masses, not the classes".
The price point that seemed to be "special" for the consumer (at least back then) was $200 bucks. We have to remember though that at that time when you bought a C64/Vic20 it did not come with ANY storage (sounds a lot like the unit above!) and hardly any apps (a couple of cartridges I think). And for display you hooked it up to a TV.
Why can't that model work now? Are we SO used to having SVGA (or better) and Hard disks that an embedded computer (which is what the C64 and Vic20 was) can't make it?
Over 25 MILLION C64's were produced. The person that can tap that same market again (el cheapo PC) can make $$$$
It is possible to let them be a member so they can test their high speed apps but not be able to "sniff" traffic. Just because you become a member does NOT mean they will let you put SNORT boxes at every maxgigapop on Abiline/I2
Recently the PBS show "NOVA" had a whole show about the possiblity of people comming over earlier than first thought, and the possibility of them actually boating accross from Europe along the glacier that would of stretched from the north pole as frar down as Iceland.
There is RNA evidence that some native peoples here in the U.S. might have come from a population that was from the area that is now France.
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Who cares...it's a public key. It's only used for ENCRYPTION...not decryption. Say sombody steels your public key....then tries to buy a movie, unless they stole the DVD player with it and tortured you to get your passphrase it would be useless to them.
After thinking a bit about public private keypair I was thinking the best way to keep people from pirating would be to burn the DVD for the consumer IN THE STORE.
I'm sure there are lots of holes in this...but what do you think?
1. Consumer buys DVD player that "generates" a unique public/private keypair with a passphrase the consuerm enteres when they first hook the unit up and provides it to to the consumer (bundle a USB stick or something with the unit and engineer the unit to write to the stick). The private key is stored on into rom on the player.
2. The consumer takes their USB stick to the DVD store and wants a copy of a DVD. The store has a high speed burner. They take the public key on the consumer's USB stick, and encrypt the burned DVD using the consumers public key. The public key could be stored on the DVD store database for future reference if needed so the consumer would not have to bring the stick back for future purchases.
3. The movie could be altered slightly when burned...with some sort of numeric code within the movie video identifying the original purchaser (how could you do this?..Is it possible?)
4. If somebody decrypts a movie using their private key and it ends up on the internet, you would not be able to stop it, but you could find the original purchaser and come down on them like a ton of bricks to "make an example".
Of course this only works with physical media...or maybe not.
It does not have to be the full size of the DVD.
Increase the end max size of the movie after compression from 700 to 2 Gig as your upper size range and you can have full DVD quality with 5.1 AC3 surround sound using Xvid or DiVX as your compression codec.
Sure...but just about everbody has a DVD/CDROM reader.
With one of the MPEG 4 codecs (Xvid/DiVX..ect..) you can EASILY get full DVD quality with 5.1 surround sound on a 4.8GB DVD.
Hmm...IF I were somebody who wanted to download a movie and I had broadband I would MUCH rather have a full quality DiVX or XVID at about the 2 GB file size than 700 Meg. The quality is far superior.
Back in my C-64 days, I knew a guy who tried to copy everything he got his hands on. Not that he used any of it, or even distributed it.
It was the thrill of trying to break the copy protection, of finding the "cRaK" to pirate the software.
He even went so far to paint his 1541 disk drive with "War Copy" paint....truely over the edge.
The thrill for these people is like breaking a code somebody else devised, it's an Ego booster. And like drugs that give you pleasure, it's addictive.
The process of getting the latest movie in the best quality on a 700MB CD (with DVD's so cheap..WHY do they continue to want to fit it on 700 MB CD's!) and getting it done first is somewhat similar.
I think MS has finally admitted that until windoze can match *nix (LINUX, UNIX, OS X) in the distributed computing sphere, research is not going to touch their stuff.
Fact of the matter is they have a pretty hard uphill battle ahead of them. The research computing community is as pro-linux and UNIX as any zealot here on slashdot.
Nearly the entire U.S. goverment uses UNIX (mostly LINUX actually) within the supercomputing realm. DOE and NSF's supercomputing centers all run LINUX.
We'll know how serious they are by their presence at the next supercomputing conference.
-Doug
Contrary to what many people know...there are MANY networks that are IPv6 enabled. Just not many IPv6 apps.
ALL of abiline (Internet2) is v6 enabled, just not all the way to clients.
Here is an up to date map of deployment of Ipv6 on I2.
http://www.abilene.iu.edu/images/v6.pdf
It's not dead....it's undead
PLEASE!...
The last thing we need is for SPECTRE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.P.E.C.T.R.E.
or Dr. EVIL (TM)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Evil
To get ideas on where to detonate the NUKE....
Hmm...I guess it would make a good Bond flick plotline
I live just over the 20KM limit. My property will be beach front!
Riiight
Already have that...it's called lynx...but then again. Gan Gecko be ported to a text browser!? LOL
When I see it ported to DOS
Even though it never seems to pan out, the only wire that currently goes to 99.99999 of all houses and can carry more bandwidth (theoretically) than two thin little copper telephone wires are electrical power cables.
Fiber will never be pulled to rural America. Cable companies already refuse to pull cable to rural areas. Wireless is a problem in the mountains, and Satelight is high latency and bandwidth limited. Power is mandated by law to be pulled to your house no matter how far off into the sticks you live.
The question is when.....TV over those same lines is a no brainer
I use Jetable.org (time expiring email relay addressess) to when signing up or doing something that I might suspect might get me on a spam list. This way email get's sent to my gmail (or any other account) for a limited time and if the spammer gets a hold of the jetable email address, it just expires after a set time period. VERY useful!
And it's totally free!
http://www.jetable.org/en/index
Since most of the software is open source...could'nt you try to CREATE a hole....get it included in the source tree and then "discover" it?
Does this mean that everybody will have to shave their heads in order to wear the skullcap?
I mean...hey..if everybody does it then it would'nt be that strange...
I'd imagine the world would look somewhat like THX1138!
What is up with these dorks?
Send jobs to India. Ads all over your service. Odd billing. Creators of Gnutella. Destroyers of WinAmp. Creators of NSIS. Nightmare employees on the phone (they sound really scared).
And landfills full of coasters (CDs). Oh and the mother of all Crappy mergers for WB but the best for AOL.
They are all over the map. Do the people who run it know anything except how to sell dialup to new computer users? Everything else they touch turns to poo.
That's OK..just invent MD6!
It just occured to me, I wonder if there are any self-learning algorythms that could be adapted to traffic lights. Imagine a light (or a group of lights) controlled by a central system that learns from traffic patterns over time and becomes better at managing lights due to experience.
Possible?
I don't mind LIVING for a thousand years...I just don't want to LOOK like I've been living like a thousand years!
Would it be possible to integrate Ximian exchange connector into thunderbird? That would be a feature that I'm sure MANY people would like.
I remember back in the 80's a quote by a former Commodore computer exec.. "Computers for the masses, not the classes".
The price point that seemed to be "special" for the consumer (at least back then) was $200 bucks. We have to remember though that at that time when you bought a C64/Vic20 it did not come with ANY storage (sounds a lot like the unit above!) and hardly any apps (a couple of cartridges I think). And for display you hooked it up to a TV.
Why can't that model work now? Are we SO used to having SVGA (or better) and Hard disks that an embedded computer (which is what the C64 and Vic20 was) can't make it?
Over 25 MILLION C64's were produced. The person that can tap that same market again (el cheapo PC) can make $$$$
http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64
Actually I was wondering how many people had there computers "compromised" by trojan or virus which the hacker could then collect their key/userid.
That could happen as well I suppose.
Note: Transgaming will be supporting HL 2 soon. I wonder if it will run better (and be more secure) under LINUX and Cedega?
That WOULD be irony
It is possible to let them be a member so they can test their high speed apps but not be able to "sniff" traffic. Just because you become a member does NOT mean they will let you put SNORT boxes at every maxgigapop on Abiline/I2
Recently the PBS show "NOVA" had a whole show about the possiblity of people comming over earlier than first thought, and the possibility of them actually boating accross from Europe along the glacier that would of stretched from the north pole as frar down as Iceland.
There is RNA evidence that some native peoples here in the U.S. might have come from a population that was from the area that is now France.
link below to NOVA web site with the program
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/stoneage/