Criminalizing crypto criticism
Eric Murray
ericm at lne.com
Fri Jul 27 19:26:59 EDT 2001
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 06:36:53PM -0400, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote:
[..]
>
> If you read the language carefully, you will see that 1201g only
> permits *circumvention* as part of cryptographic research (and then
> only under limited circumstances). There is nothing in the law that
> allows publication of results.
>
> Even the recent Shamir, et. al. paper on RC4 and WEP could arguably
> violate DMCA. WEP could be considered a TPM since it protects
> copyrighted works (e.g. e-mail). More importantly RC4 could be used
> in some other copy protection system that we don't know about
Like an Adobe product- PDF uses RC4 for it's "password protection".
Eric
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