Cryptography law Cryptography law Bernstein v. United States is a court case brought by Daniel J. Bernstein challenging restrictions on the export of encryption software outside of the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bernstein v. United States"
Chamberlain v. Skylink is an American legal case known for being one of the first uses of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) as a prosecution aid in a copyright case, setting the boundaries and limitations of the controversial act. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chamberlain v. Skylink"
DeCSS is a computer program capable of decrypting content on a DVD video disc encrypted using the Content-Scrambling System (CSS). ...more on Wikipedia about "DeCSS"
Digital rights management (DRM) is the umbrella term referring to any of several technologies used to enforce pre-defined limitations on software, music, movies, or other digital data. In more technical terms, DRM handles the description, layering, analysis, valuation, trading and monitoring of the rights held over a digital work. In the widest possible sense, the term refers to any such management. ...more on Wikipedia about "Digital rights management"
Patent-related uncertainty around Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is one of the main factors limiting its wide acceptance. For example, the OpenSSL team accepted an ECC patch only in 2005 (in OpenSSL version 0.9.8), despite the fact that it was submitted in 2002. According to RSA Laboratories, "in all of these cases, it is the implementation technique that is patented, not the prime or representation, and there are alternative, compatible implementation techniques that are not covered by the patents." This uncertainty is profitable for patent owners. For example, in order to avoid any patent-related problems the NSA has licensed MQV-based ECC patents from Certicom in a US$25 million deal. This article briefly discusses patents related to the ECC and lists prior art that invalidates some of their claims. ...more on Wikipedia about "ECC patents"
ElcomSoft is a Russian computer software company specialising in computer security and data recovery applications and spamware.. ...more on Wikipedia about "ElcomSoft"
The Electronic Communications Act 2000 (2000 Chapter c.7) is a U.K. act of parliament that: ...more on Wikipedia about "Electronic Communications Act 2000"
Since World War II, Western governments, including the U.S. and its NATO allies have regulated the export of cryptography for national security considerations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Export of cryptography"
An illegal prime is a prime number which contains information forbidden by law to possess or distribute. ...more on Wikipedia about "Illegal prime"
The Penet remailer (anon.penet.fi) was a pseudonymous remailer operated by Johan "Julf" Helsingius of Finland from 1993 to 1996. It offered Internet users the ability to shield their identities when, for instance, posting messages to Usenet newsgroups. The Penet remailer was one of the first remailers, was very popular, and had a wide following. It also had some critics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Penet remailer"
qrpff is a perl script created by Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz of the MIT SIPB. It performs DeCSS in six or seven lines. ...more on Wikipedia about "Qrpff"
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIP or RIPA) is a United Kingdom law covering the interception of communications. It was introduced to take account of technological change such as the growth of the Internet and strong encryption. It also puts other techniques for monitoring citizens on a statutory footing. ...more on Wikipedia about "Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000"
Universal v. Reimerdes was the first test of controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a United States federal law. In October 1999 the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) became aware of the availability on the Internet of DeCSS, a program intended to allow DVDs to be viewed on open source operating systems such as Linux. The industry responded by sending out a number of cease and desist letters to web site operators who posted the software, some of which removed it from their sites. In January 2000, the movie studios filed a lawsuit against Eric Corley, publisher of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly Magazine, and two others (including Shawn Reimerdes, who settled, but whose name is immortalized in the caption), based on the recently passed DMCA. After a hearing at which defendants presented no affidavits or evidentiary material, the Court granted a preliminary injunction barring defendants from posting DeCSS. At the conclusion of the hearing, plaintiffs sought also to enjoin defendants from linking to other sites that posted DeCSS, but the Court declined to entertain the application at that time in view of plaintiffs failure to raise the issue in their motion papers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Universal v. Reimerdes"
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