[fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: Who v. Who - more on the dilemma of the classical attacker

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 Financial Cryptography Update: Who v. Who - more on the dilemma of the classical attacker 

                           November 27, 2005


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https://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000601.html



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In the military they say no plan survives the first shot, and call this
aptly "the fog of war."  The best laid plans of the security industry
and various parliaments (US Congress, the European Union, etc) are
being challenged in war as in music.  Now comes news that one DRM
supplier is threatening to reverse-engineer the DRM of another
supplier.

http://playlistmag.com/news/2005/11/21/ipoddrm/index.php
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27899

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A company that specializes in rights-management technology for online
stores has declared its plans to reverse-engineer the FairPlay encoding
system Apple uses on iTunes Music Store purchases.
The move by Cupertino-based Navio Systems would essentially break
Apple’s Digital Rights Management (DRM) system in order to allow other
online music retailers to sell downloads that are both DRM-encoded and
iPod-compatible by early 2006.
“Typically, we embrace and want to work with the providers of the DRM,”
said Ray Schaaf, Navio’s chief operating officer. “With respect to
FairPlay, right now Apple doesn’t license that, so we take the view
that as RealNetworks allows users to buy FairPlay songs on Rhapsody, we
would take the same approach.”
In 2004, after unsuccessfully courting Apple to license FairPlay,
RealNetworks introduced its Harmony technology, which allowed users to
buy music from online sources other than the iTunes Music Store and
transfer it to their iPod. RealNetworks’ move was then denounced by
Apple as adopting “the tactics and ethics of a hacker to break into the
iPod.” In December of 2004, Apple shot back by releasing an iPod
software update that disabled support for RealNetworks-purchased songs.
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