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From: Chris Friesen <chris_friesen@sympatico.ca>
To: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@transvirtual.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] DRM OS
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 17:13:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C338600.B019EED9@sympatico.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10112121959320.8479-100000@www.transvirtual.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10112140107130.8630-100000@master.linux-ide.org> <20011214163235.A17636@vitelus.com>

Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 01:15:48AM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > CPU(crypto)<->Memory(crypto)<->Framebuffer(crypto)
> > ata(clean)<->diskcontroller(crypto)<->Memory(crypto)<->CPU(crypto)
> > scsi(crypto)<->diskcontroller(crypto)<->Memory(crypto)<->CPU(crypto)
> > CPU(crypto)<->Bridge(crypto)<->Memory(crypto)
> >
> > Just watch and see!
> 
> Why would crypto help at all?

That's just the point!  The hardware manufacturers are going to implement the
crypto so that only valid digitally signed files can be played on that hardware,
and there will be crypto at every step to try and prevent people from getting at
the unencrypted bytestream.

They want to keep us from doing cd/mp3 or DVD/DivX type conversions.

Chris

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-01-02 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-13  4:00 [OT] DRM OS James Simmons
2001-12-13  4:07 ` Matt
2001-12-13 13:38 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-14  9:15 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-12-15  0:32   ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-12-17  6:10     ` TimO
2001-12-18 16:17     ` Alan Cox
2001-12-18 18:54       ` James Simmons
2001-12-18 19:06         ` Andre Hedrick
2001-12-18 19:53       ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-12-18 20:05         ` Dave Jones
2001-12-18 20:10           ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-12-18 20:25             ` Dave Jones
2001-12-18 20:45               ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-19 10:39               ` Helge Hafting
2001-12-18 20:44             ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-18 20:56               ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-12-19 21:49                 ` Thomas Dodd
2001-12-20 22:40             ` Marco Ermini
2001-12-21 16:38               ` Brendan Pike
2002-01-02 22:13     ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2002-01-02 22:30       ` Alan Cox
2002-01-03  1:52       ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-03 11:10         ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-12-13 14:21 Thomas Hood
2001-12-13 15:33 Jesse Pollard

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