fyi: Content Protection for Recordable Media -- Jeffrey B. Lotspiech

[Jeff.Hodges at kingsmountain.com]

This talk is perhaps of interest. Note the second paragraph of the 
announcement below. The talk should be available live and archived for a while 
here..

  http://online.stanford.edu/seminar/index.html

JeffH

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Subject: Jeff Lotspiech, IBM * Content Protection * W4:15 Gates B03



	Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium
           4:15PM, Wednesday, April 4, 2001
     NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03

Title:		Content Protection for Recordable Media

Speaker:	Jeffrey B. Lotspiech
		IBM Almaden Research Center

About the talk:

Content Protection for Recordable Media, or CPRM, is a technology
developed by IBM, Intel, Matsushita, and Toshiba to provide copy
protection on portable media. The technology allows a recorder to
record encrypted content, and a player to play it back, without
having any keys in common. The media acts as a passive oracle to
allow the different boxes to come to the same cryptographic key.
In contrast, previous copy protection technologies like the one
used for DVD video, depended on shared keys between the mastering
studio and the players, with predictable results. As soon as a
16-year-old in Norway found one shared key, the system was
effectively broken: there was no way to exclude the broken key
from the system without hurting too many innocent consumers. In
contrast, CPRM can survive thousands of independent attacks, and
exclude millions of circumvention devices, without any chance of
innocent consumers being affected.

Recently, articles have appeared in the press that CPRM will be
standardized on all PC hard drives. This has fueled Orwellian
mages of a Big Brother chip on your PC that will decide whether
your files are worthy of being copied. This is complete nonsense.
CPRM would never be standardized, nor have we ever proposed such
a thing. CPRM strength is portability and interchangeability and
it is mismatch for fixed hard drive. It is completely passive,
requires no hardware, and can only be exploited by newly-designed
applications. It cannot possibly affect existing files or
applications. How these myths came about, and persist, was an
object lesson for a media-naive researcher.

About the speaker:

Jeff Lotspiech is the manager of the Content Protection
Technology Group at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He has a BS
and MS in Computer Science from MIT, 1972. He has been working on
content protection technologies, both the Internet and media, for
the last six years.

Contact information:

Jeffrey B. Lotspiech
IBM Almaden Research Center DPEM/B3
650 Harry Road
San Jose, CA 95120
408-927-1851
408-927-3497
lotspiech at almaden.ibm.com

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