Re: Criminalizing crypto criticism

[Eric Murray]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 06:36:53PM -0400, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote:
[..]

> 
> If you read the language carefully, you will see that 1201g only 
> permits *circumvention* as part of cryptographic research (and then 
> only under limited circumstances). There is nothing in the law that 
> allows publication of results.
> 
> Even the recent Shamir, et. al. paper on RC4 and WEP could arguably 
> violate DMCA. WEP could be considered a TPM since it protects 
> copyrighted works (e.g. e-mail). More importantly RC4 could be used 
> in some other copy protection system that we don't know about

Like an Adobe product- PDF uses RC4 for it's "password protection".


Eric