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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
@Ilasram: in fact, I am a programmer and have been involved in online systems since the pre-Compuserve era.
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Eep. Sorry for assuming that good poetry interfered with programming
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Oh, and it's actually "llasram" with an "LL."
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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
I emphatically do not think that individual private keys prevent universal reader applications from being written. In fact, one of the appealing features of the PK-based system is that just the opposite is true.
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Ah. I became confused when you said this:
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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
Writing a public key encryption/decryption program isn't exactly trivial - so nothing in this system makes it "easy" to remove the DRM.
This system would even be stronger that today's typical DRM systems, because there would be no single universal "code cracker". A program to decrypt my books wouldn't work on your books.
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Ok, but ignoring that, I think I understand you now -- that the idea is in fact to just make working within the protection scheme sufficiently convenient that most users have no reason to attempt to escape it. I still don't see the benefits of asymmetric crypto in such a system, but *shrug*.