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Digital Rights Management - An idea

DISCUSSION Dean McEwan 4 participants 4 messages May 14, 2003

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I had an idea for DRM, what about a kernel that forces everything downloaded to have a
valid signature, and doesn't let the file/program be accessed otherwise?

We could discuss ideas now, move on to code examples next, and then draw up a whitepaper,

All those who are interested mail me.

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#1 lore raw

Hello,

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I had an idea for DRM, what about a kernel that forces
everything downloaded to have a
valid signature, and doesn't let the file/program be accessed otherwise?

Waoh....

If I want to install a new soft, I'm gonna have to find someone having the .tgz file signed so that I can get it ????

Is that what U mean ?

Regards,
Paul

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Quoted 2 lines · Dean McEwan

I had an idea for DRM, what about a kernel that forces everything downloaded to have a
valid signature, and doesn't let the file/program be accessed otherwise?

You can set this up with both rsbac and selinux

#3 lore raw
In reply to Dean McEwan

How exactly would you do this specifically for "downloaded" files except by snooping into every ftp/http, much less having to decrypt the protocols like https or scp?

Anyway, assuming you meant "downloaded file == any file", that's simple, and already being discussed, most likely by companies like TiVo, etc.

Quoted 10 lines · Dean McEwan

I had an idea for DRM, what about a kernel that forces everything downloaded to have a
valid signature, and doesn't let the file/program be accessed otherwise?

We could discuss ideas now, move on to code examples next, and then draw up a whitepaper,

All those who are interested mail me.

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Dean.
DM TECH.