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> DRM is handing a ciphertext, a decryptor, and keys over to someone else and asking them to use it only in the way that you want them to use it. I think I hav
by jimhefferon 13y ago
> DRM is handing a ciphertext, a decryptor, and keys over to someone else and asking them to use it only in the way that you want them to use it.
I think I have a new .sig.
- npsimons 13y agoI've always liked this summary of DRM from someone on slashdot: Very, very simply, here is the premise behind DRM. 1. I know a secret 2. I want to tell you the secret 3. I don't want you to tell anyone else the secret 4. I don't trust you Perhaps you can see now why there's no solution to that scenario. Another good short one: DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom.'
- lloeki 13y agoSimpler: since you need the key to view the content, the only security scheme possible is through obscurity of the key or the decryptor. Hence anyone with the appropriate flashlight can dispell the darkness. Also, analog hole.