From: Jonathan Wienke <JonWienk@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 12:17:02 +0800
To: Robert Hettinga <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Superdistribution development/release
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At 07:27 PM 12/3/97 -0500, Robert Hettinga wrote:
>Yet Another Watermark...

[snip]

>From: "Blair Anderson" <blair@technologist.com>

[snip]

>Persistent Cryptographic Wrappers (RightsWrapper) - No matter where the
>digital document (financial newsletter, educational test, minutes from a
>court proceeding, sensitive health care records, etc.) goes, no matter
>how it gets there, whether it is used and then subsequently
>redistributed, etc. the document is always encrypted.  It is never left
>decrypted and exposed even while it is being viewed.

[snip]

>Metering and Enforcement (RightsClient) - Provides decryption services,
>meters use, and sends usage information to the RightsServer via secure
>middleware.

"It is never left decrypted and exposed" but the software "Provides
decryption services."  Doesn't this sound oxymoronic?  These guys need
help.

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Jonathan Wienke

PGP Key Fingerprints:
7484 2FB7 7588 ACD1  3A8F 778A 7407 2928
3312 6597 8258 9A9E D9FA  4878 C245 D245 EAA7 0DCC

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-- Jonathan Wienke

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RSA export-o-matic:
print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<>
)]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`