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To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (34704)	11/7/2000 12:31:58 AM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Encryption experts??? What's that song --- "it has to be you" paul: Note the requirement for (audio) file encryption Copying the file without the key would be useless and the key would have to be designed to have a limited time stamp life and some level of engineered uncopyability. Scott: But any user who had a key, could then play back the file ... paul: But If the key must be sent somewhere (such as to Sony) to be validated in order for the file to be downloaded , and the key is used to encrypt the file that is downloaded, and you have to register your identity with Sony, then copying the key and sending it to someone will not get you anywhere. I think I could even imagine a VPN tunnel going to your identity vault that would work just for the listening session assuming that the original idea of "you are whom you say you are" is taken seriously by the creators of the identity vault. Scott: recieve the file then and record it on another PC and put that file out on the Internet for free ... Paul: Why bother, just rerecord the sound coming out of your card and recompress it and send it out. Even better why not rent a movie and then mpeg4 it and send it all over the internet? Or just start with your own CD and forget about going to a central computer site. scott: ... which is exactly what is being done today. The key and watermark technologies can't prevent what is occurring today ... they simply keep honest people honest ... which is still the bulk of people ... ;-) Paul: which is the point --- convenience not security. I would argue that the company that develops the tool for the Sonys Bertelsmanns etc. to try out their subscription schemes for delivering audio/video over the net that is most convenient and flexible wins. ===================== The point is not to develop a foolproof personal directory scheme for encrypting files against copying. It is to set up the personal identity end of a transaction in which I can own some virtual property and put it in my identity vault. It is to give me somewhere on the internet to put my virtual property. So being proactive you clowns are using people listening to some music as a way to plant a trojan horse on their computers? Give me a break.