Re: CPRM ?? Re: Possibly wrong BIO usage in ide_multwrite
From: Andre Hedrick (andre_at_linux-ide.org)
Date: 01/03/04
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Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 23:51:29 -0800 (PST) To: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
Christophe,
Fair enough, and point taken. Thanks for the clarification.
I am puzzled by the need to modify buffers on the fly inside the FSM.
This is straight out of some unpublished information, so it struck a raw
nerve. Just be aware this tends to follow the design and could be used
for such.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Christophe Saout wrote:
> Am Fr, den 02.01.2004 schrieb Andre Hedrick um 05:43:
>
> > I am sorry but adding in a splitter to CPRM is not acceptable.
> > Digital Rights Management in the kernel is not acceptable to me, period.
> >
> > Maybe I have misread your intent and the contents on your website.
> >
> > Device-Mappers are one thing, intercepting buffers in the taskfile FSM
> > transport is another. This stinks of CPRM at this level, regardless of
> > your intent. Do correct me if I am wrong.
>
> I can assure you I was never having DRM or anything like this in mind
> nor making fundamental changes to the IDE layer. It was just that
> ++bi_idx that bugged me. Must be a misunderstanding, sorry. :)
>
> The only thing I'm having on my website is a device-mapper target that
> does basically the same as cryptoloop tries to. It's just about
> encrypting sensitive data on top of any other device, nothing else.
>
>
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