No Subject

Unless there was decryption hardware in the monitor itself.

Then I suppose you'd have to video the screen as each new "always
encrypted" "totally secure" frame came up. 



> 
> On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Robert Hettinga wrote:
> > 
> > Persistent Cryptographic Wrappers (RightsWrapper) - No matter where the
> > digital document (financial newsletter, educational test, minutes from a
> > court proceeding, sensitive health care records, etc.) goes, no matter
> > how it gets there, whether it is used and then subsequently
> > redistributed, etc. the document is always encrypted.  It is never left
> > decrypted and exposed even while it is being viewed.
> 
> They have lost their mind. Since humans are notoriously bad at performing
> decryptions in their head in real time, whatever is sent to the display
> *must* be cleartext. Any competent programmer can grab it at that point.
> 
> -- Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred.
>    "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?"
> 


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In <2cbffee5893cc0ab108d748c922ffe2d@anon.efga.org>, on 12/04/97 
   at 12:42 AM, Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org> said:


>Unless there was decryption hardware in the monitor itself.

>Then I suppose you'd have to video the screen as each new "always
>encrypted" "totally secure" frame came up. 

Naw picture quality will go all to hell. Better to tap in between the
decryption hardware and the feed to the picture tube. A couple of days on
the workbench and you should be able to pull the data at your leasure.

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