Status of Cryptography Research in implementation of the EUCD

[Graham]

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On Wednesday 14 Aug 2002 10:09 pm, Owen Lewis wrote:

>         -       If a researcher publishes a method to breach
> copyright the only good that is likely served is that of thieves and
> there is a palpable risk of harm to all the holders of copyright
> protected by that method as well as to the owner of the method
> itself.

Much the same argument was made against the open source community in=20
distributing software that was both free of cost and free to be shared. =20
Most of the problems in Microsofts operating systems would have been=20
solved today if they had not been a "closed box" and allowed the wider=20
community access to it to correct its problems.

Harking back to an earlier exchange of posts, this sounds like a charter=20
to outlaw DeCSS and the like.
- --=20

Graham
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