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March 27, 2002

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March 14 discussion draft

We've added the March 14 discussion draft of BPDG Compliance and Robustness Rules. Don't let the dry prose throw you off, this is gripping stuff -- and it may be your future:


Covered Products shall be manufactured in a manner that is clearly designed to effectively frustrate attempts to discover or reveal any secret keys or secret algorithms used to meet the requirements set forth...


Robustness: Data Paths. Within a Covered Product, neither Unscreened Content nor Marked Content shall be present on any User Accessible Bus in unencrypted, compressed form.


[Note to reader: The instrument promulgating these requirements could also address the issues raised in Section 2.2 of the Robustness Rules for DTCP (alerting manufacturers that the robustness requirements may be modified in the future to require the protection of uncompressed data on a User Accessible Bus, when it is technically feasible and commercially reasonable to do so.)]


Posted by Cory Doctorow at 06:33 PM