Forgot your password?  Encryption Security  DVD Situation Takes
New Turn 555  Posted by Hemos from the cannot-reverse-the-tide
dept. Several readers wrote in to let us know that the
maintainer of css-auth has announced the end of his involvement
with CSS, while the DeCSS person has removed the source from his
website. The source has been removed at the behest of lawyers
representing "the film industry".  DVD Situation Takes New Turn
Comments Filter:   • by taniwha (70410) on Tuesday November 09,
1999 @08:00AM (#1548531) Homepage Journal     Locking the door
after the horse has bolted is always a bad idea .... it just
makes the other users of the stable angry.      Leaving the key
under the mat is also a bad idea      Letting amateurs implement
crypto doesn't work so well either      But the worst mistake is
to alienate a whole bunch of smart people who understand locks
by selling them horses but not letting them ride them      In
the future if you are basing a business on the use of large
secret numbers you