limits of watermarking (Re: First Steganographic Image in theWild)

Roop Mukherjee bmukherj at styx.uwaterloo.ca
Mon Oct 22 10:23:04 EDT 2001


On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Ben Laurie wrote:

>
> If it were possible, it would indeed raise the bar. The problem is, it
> would seem, that it is not possible to have a provably strong means of
> copy protection, publicly known or otherwise. The SDMI charter can say
> what it wants, but that doesn't mean it can be achieved. The arguments
> that support the impossibility of the goal have been well rehearsed, so
> I won't repeat them here.
>

For the sake of the yet-to-be-converted people like myself, could you at
least point to the impossiblity arguments that have conviced you and
possibly others, that strong open standards copy protection is impossible.

Thanks in advance,

-- Roop
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