RE: [dvd-discuss] Comparing DeCSS with legitimate code.

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

I thought that CSS was the Content Scrambling System
... that is, that CSS was _only_ the encryption portion
of the "three pronged approach".

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom [mailto:tom@lemuria.org]
> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 10:12 AM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Comparing DeCSS with legitimate code.
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:24:24AM -0700, Richard Hartman wrote:
> > > - decss reads DVDs regardless of region coding
> > 
> > The region coding is not part of the encryption.
> 
> no, but it IS part of CSS. remember that - see WTO lecture - CSS is a
> "three-pronged approach". not even the MPAA believed that the
> encryption would be any good.
> 
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