CITP Blog is hosted by Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, a research center that studies digital technologies in public life. Here you’ll find comment and analysis from the digital frontier, written by the Center’s faculty, students, and friends.
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Reports are popping up all over that the major record companies are cautiously gearing up to sell music in MP3 format, without any DRM (anti-copying) technology. This was the buzz…
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Wikipedia Leads; Will Search Engines NoFollow?
Wikipedia has announced that all of its outgoing hyperlinks will now include the rel=”nofollow” attribute, which instructs search engines to disregard the links. Search engines infer a page’s importance by…
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Diebold Shows How to Make Your Own Voting Machine Key
By now it should be clear that Diebold’s AccuVote-TS electronic voting machines have lousy security. Our study last fall showed that malicious software running on the machines can invisibly alter…
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AACS: Modeling the Battle
[Posts in this series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.] By this point in our series on AACS (the encryption scheme used in HD-DVD and Blu-ray) it should be…
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AACS: Sequence Keys and Tracing
[Posts in this series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.] This is the sixth post in our series on AACS, the encryption scheme used for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs.…
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AACS: Title Keys Start Leaking
[Posts in this series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.] Last week we predicted that people would start extracting the title key (the cryptographic key needed to decrypt the…
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AACS: Game Theory of Blacklisting
[Posts in this series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.] This is the fourth post in our series on AACS, the encryption scheme used for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs.…
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AACS: Blacklisting, Oracles, and Traitor Tracing
[Posts in this series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.] This is the third post in our discussion of AACS, the encryption scheme used for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs.…
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AACS: Extracting and Using Keys
[Posts in this series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.] Let’s continue our discussion of AACS (the encryption scheme used on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs) and how it is…
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AACS Decryption Code Released
[Posts in this series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.] Decryption software for AACS, the scheme used to encrypt content on both next-gen DVD systems (HD-DVD and Blu-ray), was…