Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

[Sam Simpson]

On 16 Sep 2002, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> AARG!Anonymous <remailer at aarg.net> writes:

<SNIP>

> > And if the virus infected the banking client software
> > itself, that would change its hash which would keep it from being able
> > to access the data.
>
> There are patches to NetBSD that happily prevent a program that does
> not have a particular hash from executing, and similar code for
> several other OSes I've seen.

Even Windows (NT/2k/XP) can implement this functionality using AppSense
Application Manager (see e.g.
http://www.appsense.com/content/software_solutions/application_manager/application_manager.asp
).

<SNIP>


Rgds,

Sam


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