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"16 bytes of data" is also the size of an AES-256 key, which is apparently able to be copyrighted.
by fox8091 7y ago
"16 bytes of data" is also the size of an AES-256 key, which is apparently able to be copyrighted.
- zerocrates 7y agoWhat's your source on that? Doesn't seem likely to me.
- dehrmann 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers... I wish people would point that out more often when there's discussion around backdooring systems to allow for government surveillance. With how quickly keys got out for HDDVD and Blu-ray, there's no reason to thing something similar wouldn't happen with a government backdoor, and that's if it's not for sale on the dark web before it goes public.
- brazzy 7y ago> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers... Actually refutes your claim that an AES key can itself be covered by copyright. The given reason to attempt to have it removed was not that copying the key itself violates copyright, but that it was used to circumvent copyright-protection mechanisms.
- segfaultbuserr 7y agoThis is nonsense. An encryption key can never be copyrighted, it's only illegal to redistribute it because it's a circumvention device under the DMCA, and possibly illegal under the CFAA, not because it's copyrighted.