It is my understanding that the encryption standards that the DAISY Consortium has adopted are those desired by the publishers. The Consortium knows that they aren't air-tight, and could be broken, but it is apparently enough to satisfy the publishers in this instance... Dave David Andrews Chief Technology Officer Minnesota State Services for the Blind (651) 642-0513 >>> gandre@arkeia.com 11/05/02 09:23AM >>> Just throwing my two cents worth in the conversation... =) On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 15:57:10 +0100, Mario wrote: > Look at DVD for instance, did the encryption scheme help there? > > How is the encryption done anway? Does every user > get his own key, or is the key embedded in the reader again? If the key is embedded in the reader, it's highly possible it will be trivial to crack. Take a look at what happened to the eBook encryption that was pushed by Adobe: most specialists now agree that it was the cheapest and weakest encryption possible. For more information, take a look at http://www.elcomsoft.com > "David B Andrews" <DANDREWS@ngwmail.des.state.mn.us> writes: > > Pressure to encrypt comes from the > > publishing/e-publishing crowd, not > > from the DAISY Consortium itself. > > That at least I hoped to be true. Sadly enough, it seems to be > a general trend of the industry. Yes, and it's also a trend that has been vigorously criticized at every step of the way. DMCA, CBPTA, and others, are rules designed to take away your freedom, regardless of your (dis-)abilities. > How about convincing publishers that this > way of doing things is wrong? Good luck! To close my email, I would like to state that the only solution to this problem, in my opinion, is (sadly) to use cracking tool to allow full access to the text contained in the files... -- Gil Andre ___ Technical writer ___ Arkeia Corporation email: gandre@arkeia.com | web: http://www.arkeia.com _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list