Hello, this is our work on the post-quantum security of signatures and ring signatures to appear in PQC22. This is joint work with Kaiman Chung, Zhao Liang and Julio Malavolta. We start with the post-quantum security of signatures. Signatures satisfy inforgeability, wherein an adversary gets to talk to a challenger which provides it a signing oracle. In the classical case, this means that the adversary can query individual messages and receives the corresponding signatures from the challenger. Eventually, the adversary produces a forgery which is said to be successful if the message corresponding to the forged signature was not queried before by the adversary. And this is indeed the standard definition used for classical inforgeability. If the adversary is a quantum polynomial time machine, however, it can make quantum queries which means that its messages may not be restricted to being individual messages, but can be queries which are a superposition over the message space. The challenger in turn has to reply with the appropriate superposition over signatures. Since these superpositions may range over the entire message space and the challenger clearly cannot measure the adversary's queries, it quickly becomes clear that we cannot meaningfully define the notion of what message was really queried. And so it becomes difficult to define when the adversary actually succeeds in forging a signature. For example, the adversary may query a uniform superposition over the entire message space and just measure the challenger's response to get a signature on a uniformly picked message. Does this mean that the adversary succeeded in getting a forged signature? It's unclear, so we have to turn to other definitions to see what we can do. One of the first definitions considered in the quantum setting was that of one more unforgeability, which was first introduced by Bonnet and Zandri in their work. Classically, this is similar to unforgeability for blind signatures where the adversary queries the signing oracle on several messages, let us say Q of them and receives the corresponding signatures. Next, the adversary has to produce forged signatures but not just one as in the standard definition but Q plus one of them. If all of these signatures are valid, the challenger accepts the adversary's forgery. The generalization to the quantum cases immediate the adversary switches to querying quantum states which are superpositions over the messages and the oracle replies with the appropriate signatures as we have seen before. And it does this Q times as before, for example. And we expect the adversary to finally produce Q plus one classical signatures and the challenger accepts if all of these are valid. In this case, we can further see that there is nowhere that we can use superpositions to win the game where a classical adversary wouldn't. And of course, as we have seen, this is equivalent to the standard definition classically. And this serves as a well-defined definition for forgibility in the quantum case and it has been used in several works. There are certain concerns that can be had with the one more unforgibility definition. Broadly, the issue is that does definition discrease slightly with our intuitive understanding of the generalization of forgibility to the quantum setting. For example, we can consider an adversary that produces several forgeries. However, it queries the signing oracle on superpositions that come from a different part of the message space than for which it produces the forgeries. In more detail, you have an adversary and you have the message space and you have a certain subset of the message space. And suppose an adversary queries superpositions on points outside of the subset S and it gets back certain signatures. And in the end, it manages to produce a forgery that comes from S, while all its queries were supported on points outside S. Clearly, intuitively, we feel that this should not be allowed. But the one more unforgibility definition does not rule out attacks of this kind. This is not just of notional interest because in the work of AMRS 20, there is an example of this kind of scheme that achieves this kind of forgery but also satisfies the notion of one more unforgibility. Details can be found in that paper. To counterman these issues, we consider moving to a different definition of unforgibility. We consider the notion of blind unforgibility that was proposed in the work of AMRS 20. As before, we have the adversary talking to a signing oracle and a corresponding message space M. This has various messages and now the adversary may submit superposition queries over these messages and the oracle returns the corresponding signature also in superposition. The catch is that the oracle in this definition maintains what we call a blind set of relative weight epsilon by uniformly sampling points from the message space with probability epsilon. The parameter epsilon is part of the game parameters and can be chosen adversary really. The function of the blind set is that the oracle is considered to be blinded on the messages that are in the subset. So in more detail, if the adversary submits a superposition over messages where some of these messages may be in the blind set, the signing query only answers on those components that do not come from the blind set. So here, for example, we have that the signing oracle computes the signatures, the components that come from the points outside of the blind set, but for the points inside the blind set, it just computes the signature to be bought and then prepares the final signature in superposition appropriately. We don't know this blinded signature by prefixing B epsilon. Eventually, in this definition, the adversary must output a challenge and the challenger has to check that this forger is valid and the message for the signature comes from the blind set. It is not hard to see that the classical restriction of this definition is comparable and is actually equivalent to the standard unforgability definition. So this seems to meet the basic requirements that we'd want from a quantum unforgability definition. Unfortunately, we do not know how to compare this to the one more unforgability definition in the quantum setting directly. However, as mentioned, it seems to meet all the requirements we would want and also agrees with our intuitive understanding of unforgability in the quantum setting. So we use this definition. With this definition in mind, we show several signature schemes that satisfy it in different settings. Before our work, the only known schemes that provably satisfied blinded unforgability were one-time signature schemes. We first show that a signature scheme based on quantum PRFs and the quantum hardness of SIS is blinded unforgible in the quantum random oracle model. We also give us new scheme based on the same assumptions that is blinded unforgible in the plain model. Both these signatures turn out to be compact, meaning that the signatures size can be made independent of the size of the message itself. We also have results in the ring signature setting. Firstly, we develop a meaningful extension of the blinded unforgability definition to the ring signature setting. We also present a construction of ring signatures satisfying this definition, relying on the previous construction of ring signatures by Chatterjee, Gurg and others from Crypto21. The definition of ring signature and forgability proposed in that work had several drawbacks, stemming from the fact that it was based on one more unforgability. Our new definition removes these drawbacks and we also find the way to meet it. Let us talk now about the blinded unforgible scheme secure in the Q-ROM. The scheme that we show to be secure was given by Gentry Pieckert and Vaikunternathan in 2008. Here we will quickly recall the scheme. This relies crucially on the notion of pre-image-sampleable function families. PSFs are family of functions associated with public and private keys where a public key allows for evaluation of the PSF in the forward direction and the secret key allows for sampling a pre-image. PSFs have several properties with the main one being that the joint distribution of the image and pre-image taken together are statistically close whether the image is for sample uniformly or the pre-image is. Secondly, for any given image, the corresponding pre-image has super-law logarithmic minentropy. The third property that they have is collision resistance, meaning that it is hard to find two different pre-images for the same image. PSF satisfying all these properties can be constructed from the hardness of the SIS problem. So what does the GPV scheme look like? The first thing to note is that it is a deterministic scheme that is de-randomized using a quantum PRF, but we won't be going into that here. The scheme has a secret key that includes the secret key of the PSF. Given any particular message, we first evaluate the random oracle on the message to get a hash digest. And then we compute the inverse of the PSF given by the secret key on the hash digest to get the actual signature. Colloquially, this is known as a hash and sign signature scheme. The public key includes the public key of the PSF and allows for evaluating the output of the PSF on the signature, which if the signature was computed correctly, should be equal to the hash digest on the message. And this is simply the verification procedure. One can check that this signature scheme can be made compact because the size of the random oracle output does not need to depend on the message. We now sketch the security of this scheme. The first thing to note is that we presented the scheme in the classical setting, but it makes perfect sense as a quantum scheme given access to the quantum random oracle. We show security using a hybrid argument. In the hybrid form of the unforgability experiment, any given message is signed in a slightly different manner described as follows. For any given message, we simply evaluate a pre-image for the PSF family sampled using message-dependent randomness. The randomness is derived from a random function that is unrelated to the random oracle and is present only in this hybrid. And this one be mitigated using quantum PRF techniques. Next, the random oracle is programmed to make the hash digest the output of the PSF on any signature sigma. By the properties of the PSF, the joint distribution between the hash digest and the signature on a given message are statistically close to the real experiment with their sample as described previously. Of course, in the blind unforgability game, the adversary never gets to see messages or other signatures for the messages in the blind set. And finally, of course, it has to produce a forgery that lies in the blind set. So suppose we have a forgery that is m star and sigma star. Now let sigma prime describe the signature that would be returned by the challenger if the adversary were to query m star. We have one of two possible outcomes. Either sigma star is equal to sigma prime, which violates the pre-image minentropic condition because the adversary should not be able to predict sigma prime with more than negligible probability, or sigma star is not equal to sigma prime, which would in turn violate collision resistance. In this way, we are able to show that the scheme is blind unforgible in the quantum random oracle model. Let us now move to our signature scheme in the plain model. Let us get into the key components required for a plain signature scheme. The techniques we use are a combination of the left track backdoor paradigm, as in Agarwal Boy and Boney 2010, and key homomorphic evaluation techniques from Brackersky and Vaikon-Tonathan 2014. To keep things short, we won't get into these techniques, but their core can be summarized as follows. For any string x, we can create a corresponding wide matrix Bx of the following form. The left part of B has a matrix A sampled at random with entries in Zq for a large enough model use q. A can be sampled with an SIS trapdoor Ta that allows us to generate short integer solutions corresponding to A. The right half of the matrix Bx has the form A prime minus f of x for some efficient f along with g. G here is the gadget matrix, and it's a fixed public matrix. So we also have a fixed public trapdoor SIS trapdoor for G. The point now here is that we can sample SIS trapdoors for the whole wide matrix Bx in two ways. Either we can use the left trapdoor Ta or the right one Tg, and this will be crucial to our signature scheme. Let us turn to our actual signature scheme. For any message m, we can create the following matrix Bm, where the role of the function f from before is now taken over by a bit PRF. Namely, Bm has the following form where A is a random matrix sampled just as before, and the right half has the following form, namely A prime minus A subscript f and m. It can be seen as an encoded form of the output of the PRF on the message m. As described previously, we sample A along with the SIS trapdoor, and in turn, our signature scheme has a public key consisting of the components required to create Bm, where the matrices C0, C1 can be seen as encodings for the message, and the matrices Ki can be seen as encodings of the PRF secret key. The corresponding secret key is of course the SIS trapdoor Ta. A particular combination of techniques are similar to the work of Boyan and Lee from 2016, who create a similar signature scheme. A signature sigma is actually just a vector in the null space of Bm, namely, Bm times sigma should be zero. And of course, given the secret key, namely the SIS trapdoor for A, one can create such a signature easily. Note that the signature is also compact, meaning that the signature size is not directly dependent on the message length. Let us quickly go over why the signature scheme is secure. We consider a hybrid form of the unforgibility challenge with public keys generated differently. Namely, the component matrices in the public key are sampled in a different manner, with the end result being that the wide matrix Bm now appears as follows. The left part of Bm is still a random matrix A with entries in ZQ. However, A is no longer sampled with an SIS trapdoor Ta, and it is no longer available to the challenger. The right part of A has the form A times a matrix R plus one minus F of M along with G. F is still a PRF, but now it becomes an epsilon biased bit PRF, which we will come to shortly, and which will be crucial. R is a low norm matrix with short entries, and TG is the trapdoor, SIS trapdoor for the gadget matrix G, and it now becomes a secret key for the challenger. The two following cases can be easily seen. If F on M is zero, then the challenger can easily sample SIS solutions for Bm in this hybrid, and therefore can sign. If F on M is one, however, the challenger can no longer sign, and in fact, any signature that is forged by the adversary can be used as an SIS solution for Bm, which can be transferred to an SIS solution for an independently sampled instance. So using such a forgery, we can break the hardness of the SIS problem. Now the important thing to note here is, if F is a normal PRF, then it outputs zero or one with equal probability over the message space. This is not useful to us. However, if F is an epsilon bias bit PRF, meaning it only outputs one with weight epsilon or probability epsilon, then this models an uniformly sampled blind set of weight epsilon for us, and so we can directly use it in the blind unforgeability challenge. And this technique will actually give us a reduction from the unforgeability of the signature scheme to the hardness of the SIS problem. Finally, let us turn to the quantum security of ring signatures. Firstly, what are ring signatures? Well, they consider the setting where we have a set or a ring of users each with their own corresponding public key. Any user in this ring can produce a signature on behalf of the entire ring which is identified with the list of public keys. The crucial thing is that there is no interaction required between this user and the other users in the ring. The properties we expect here are unforgeability, which in this case means that no entity outside of a ring can forge signatures on behalf of that particular ring and anonymity, meaning that nobody can tell which particular user in a ring signed a given message. Ring signatures have various uses, including but not restricted to whistleblowing and blockchains. In this talk, we will be focusing on the unforgeability property as extending anonymity to the quantum setting is relatively straightforward and does not present new technical challenges. It helps to start from the classical version of the definition. This involves an adversary and a challenger as before, but the challenger now generates a universe of Q public keys, vk1 through vkq. To generate a ring signature, one has to specify a message and a ring of his choice and the adversary can do so in terms of signing queries and get the corresponding signatures. The adversary can also issue corruption queries where it can get the signing key for a particular user, which is considered to have been corrupted. Finally, the adversary has to produce a forgery on a message and a ring of his choice. This forgery is considered to be valid only if it is a valid ring signature and the ring presented by the adversary has no members previously corrupted by it. Since we use it as a starting point for a construction, let us also look at the construction of the ring signature from Chatterjee Gurg and others. This signature scheme uses as components a standard signature scheme, an encryption scheme, a ZAP system, and a somewhere perfectly binding hash scheme. The verification key for the ring signature consists of a verification key for the standard signature. A public key for the encryption scheme. And finally, the first message of a ZAP proof that comes from the verifier. The corresponding ring signature signing key has the normal signing key in addition. The actual signatures itself is made of the following components. Firstly, a standard signature for the message is generated and then encrypted using the public key for the encryption scheme. Second, we generate a hash key for the SPB hash scheme. The SPB hash is not important to our construction and can be simply thought of as a variant of a Merkle tree with certain statistically binding properties so that it allows for compressing the ring of public keys into a small digest stage. Finally, the signature has the corresponding prover message for the ZAP scheme with respect to the first message that is part of the verification key. This ZAP proof simply proves that we have a component ciphertext that is properly generated and that encrypts a properly generated signature with respect to the ring in question. This is just a sketch of the construction and the actual construction has a pair of encrypted signatures and hash keys because we rely on witness indistinguishability. Next, let us take a quick look at why the signature scheme satisfies all the desired properties. The signature has the following form where it is an encrypted standard signature followed by a hash key along with a ZAP proof. Note that the entire signature does not use the ring anywhere and the hash key allows us to hash the ring into small digest which is also used in the proof meaning that the proof itself does not depend on the size of the entire ring and can be made logarithmic in the ring size thus naturally guaranteeing compactness. Next, unforgibility is shown by moving to a hybrid where we then essentially managed to show that either the ZAP proof provided by the adversary proves a false statement or we can extract an encrypted signature and in turn extract the signature from the encryption that is bound to be a forged signature. This relies on properties of the underlying encryption scheme. Finally, as mentioned before, we don't touch on animity in detail but this follows from a simple swapping argument that uses the dummy block effectively and relies on the witness indistinguishability of the ZAP. Finally, let us turn to our quantum definition of ring signature unforgibility. As mentioned before, this draws from the blind unforgible definition and proceeds as follows. The adversary interacts with the ring signature unforgibility challenger which issues as universe of public keys as before. The adversary is now able to query for signatures on superpositions that are over both the message and the ring and look as follows. It remains to be pointed out that this is a natural generalization and something we would expect. Each user in a ring signature generate signatures on their own and the ring is just an additional input parameter to the signing algorithm and so it makes sense to consider superpositions over them. The challenger returns the corresponding signature in superposition with the signing oracle being appropriately blinded. Additionally, in this case, we have to maintain a blind set that is over both messages and rings and not over each individually. The corruption queries, however, remain classical in our definition because there is no meaningful intuition for considering quantum corruptions. Indeed, to corrupt us user means to take over their signing duties and at least at the moment, it is unclear how we would consider such a task in superposition. So we retain classical corruptions. Finally, the adversary must produce signature a forgery as before and now in contrast to the classical definition, we simply have that the signature must be valid and the message and the ring must lie in the blind set. A hidden detail here is that to properly construct the blind set, we have to fix the size of the rings used by the adversary, but this is not a problem. How can we make the previous template secure against this definition? Well, the first step, of course, needs to be that we make the underlying signature scheme blind and forgible in the quantum sense. Additionally, our zap must be sound against efficient quantum provers, which is already the case for the zap used in the previous template, so we don't have to worry about it. In our reduction from this definition to standard blind and forgibility, we need to maintain consistency between the blind sets in a certain form and unfortunately, this means that we have to sign the message along with the ring to ensure this consistency. This makes this construction non-compact and we can remove the hash key for simplicity since now it serves no purpose. With these modifications, we can adapt the reduction from the previous template and use it to show that the resulting construction satisfies the blind and forgibility definition for ring signatures. This brings us to the end of our content and now we can consider a few open problems that might be interesting to think about. First, standing open problem follows easily from the last slide, which is can we construct compact ring signatures under our definition? And of course, we don't have an answer yet. Additionally, we could consider more efficient standard signatures or signatures in other models and assumptions based on this definition, which might be interesting because this definition is very appealing. Finally, we could consider further definitions that might be adapted to different cases in the quantum setting and may offer additional advantages that may be appealing just as blind and forgibility does over standard one more unforgability in the quantum setting. That brings us to the end of our talk and thank you for watching and listening and following along. We invite you to check out our full paper available at this URL. Thank you.


So let's take a look at another example of the definite integral. So here's a fairly standard demographic problem. What I have is the natural rate of increase of a country. That's the number of births minus the number of deaths. And it roughly corresponds to the population growth of a country if we discount the possibility of immigration and emigration. And I have some function that gives that natural rate of increase. And I want to know how the population will change between 2020 and 2050. So again, we might consider a little bit of dimensional analysis to tell us what we should be looking at. And again, I might start off, T is measured in years. Now if you have some questions about whether or not this quantity is relevant, we might play Jeopardy! Which is to say, let's start off with an answer in this quantity and see if it is an answer to our question. So the answer is 30 years. The question is, how will the population change? And as an answer to the question, how will the population change, 30 years doesn't seem very good. It seems like it's an answer to how long will it take or maybe how much older is the population or something like that. But it doesn't seem that T is going to be relevant. So I'm going to ignore it. How about N of T? This is measured in persons per year, millions of persons per year. And so I might get an answer like 27 million persons per year. And so we play Jeopardy! 27 million persons per year is the answer. Is the question, how will the population change? Now there's a subtle point here. It seems like that might be an answer to that question. But it isn't. 27 million persons per year would be an answer to the question how rapidly will the population change or what rate will the population change by. But in a question like how will the population change, it doesn't seem like millions of persons per year is going to be an answer. So we'll deem this to be not relevant. And then finally let's take a look at our integral. This is going to be measured in persons. And so I have the Jeopardy! answer 37 million persons. The question is how will the population change? And as an answer to the question how will the population change, 37 million persons, I can accept that. That seems to be a plausible answer. So it looks like we're going to be looking at the definite integral. And so we'll set that up. So our population changes our definite integral of N of T. T is controlling. So I need to find T values. Well 2020, T is years after 2000. So 2020 is 20 years after. 2050 is 50 years after. And so the definite integral I'm interested in looks like that. And so I find an anti-derivative. And I evaluate that at the two endpoints. And after all the dos-settles I get an answer 75.610. Don't forget the units here. Are going to be in millions of persons. Millions of persons per year times years. Gives us our answer in millions of persons. And as an answer, again final Jeopardy! 75.610 million persons. Question is how will the population change? And that seems to be a good answer to that question.


Before we get started, welcome everybody and thank you for joining us. I'm Cliff Lynch. I'm the director of the coalition for networked information and I'll be introducing this session. This session is the last of the scheduled contributed breakout sessions for week three of the fall 2020 CNI member meeting, there will be a summing up session on Monday that I will that I will chair. So remind you week three is devoted to issues around standards infrastructure and technology. And I also want to remind you that along with the scheduled videos there are a number of pre recorded videos that we've made available, and please make use of those as appropriate as well. Here's to today's session. We are recording this and we will make the recording public after the session closed captioning is available. There is chat available. And there is a Q&A tool that you can use to enter questions at any point during the presentations as they occur to you. We will do all the presentations and then actually Casey read rather than the usual Diane Goldenberg heart will moderate the Q&A session Casey is from a PLU. We have with us several panelists, Judy Ruttenberg, who is from the Association of Research Libraries. And Casey who I've already introduced, and John Chidaki from the California Digital Library. We also have with us Cynthia Vitao, who won't be speaking but may get involved in some of the Q&A. She is from Penn State and has been serving as a visiting program officer with ARL working on various aspects of this project so we have a great team of presenters and discussions here. And what this is about is the results of a convening that happened in conjunction with the December 2019 CNI fall meeting in Washington. This is a workshop trying to look at practices around research data management and there have been lots of subsequent discussions and refinements on it, resulting in a very nice guide, a good deal of this focuses on issues around data management plans and how to deal with them. Without any further ado, it's obvious why this is needed and why it's so important and I'll just turn it over to Judy to start the presentations. Let me thank our presenters and welcome them back to CNI. Thank you so much, Cliff. And thanks to CNI for having us today. Thanks to all of you for joining us or if you're watching a future recording. Thanks for tuning in. As Cliff mentioned, this presentation is based on a National Science Foundation funded conference that ARL organized with CDL with AAU and APLU at the end of 2019. And we came together as organizations to do this conference because we're already involved in advancing open times by design by accelerating public in accelerating public access to research data. In the case of AAU and APLU and that working group and with CDL as tool builders and experts in research data management and curation. So I just want to acknowledge the outstanding project team, many of whom are either on the panel with us today or in the audience as participants. So I'm going to present the results of our conference, the project focusing on the report that we published in September of this year, and the toolkit that we've put together designed to use the content of that report in conversations within your own institutions and across a variety of stakeholders. Casey is going to organize the Q&A, facilitate some interactive work, and John is going to close for us. So this project, the conference, the report, the toolkit started because NSF issued a Dear Colleague letter in May of 2019, recommending two well-established good practices for managing data. Assigning a persistent identifier or PID to datasets and creating machine readable or active data management plans. So why PIDs? Because they connect to the elements of scholarship. So in our report in our project, we ended up recommending five core PIDs for people, objects, funding, funding force, grant, and organization. And why active DMPs? Because in an active state, as opposed to a PDF document that's attached to a funding proposal, an active data management plan serves an important communication function between researchers and their research offices on campus, between PIs and their program officers, funding agencies, and between researchers and data repositories. So the project began with the conference we held last December. And after which we, the project team, took our notes, created a set of draft guidelines for and vetted them with participants this spring, as well as other stakeholders that were not able to be with us at the conference. And so by the stakeholders we referenced in the title here included leaders of libraries, campus IT personnel, senior research officers, tool builders, and researchers themselves. So that's how, who was involved in creating them and who were speaking to you, as in terms of implementation. And then everything related to this project is available on ARL's website on the URL that you see here. So today what's new, we're kind of presenting this findings as a kind of lightweight toolkit based on our report and recommendations. Everything in it is customizable and reusable for your institution for sort of taking the contents of this report and turning it into shareable slides, handouts, discussion questions. The reading list that we used for our conference to prepare for our conference that really gives you the kind of deep background on to as to what how these data practices emerged in the first place to be recommended by NSF. And the report everything that we've written about the report and blog posts and articles, and some video interviews that we did with key stakeholders that can really help explain not the importance of these practices and what they can do for us. So, the recommendations are, you know, like I said, sort of segmented by stakeholder and this is so created the sort of stakeholder pyramid to explain that but not to reflect both who we convened, and who we consulted, but also how these practices kind of propagate across the research ecosystem and where we believe our steer of influence to be. So, you know, these, these standards around PIDs and machine actionable machine readable data management plans really come from the research community and groups like RDA research data Alliance. They get embraced by and required by government and funding funder agency policies incorporated into tool building and publishers and sort of between all of that and researchers. So, you know, is this kind of research support service area which is the really the group, the groups that we as associations wanted to convene in order to make these practices, sort of doable and achievable and as we said no nonsense and practical within your institutions. One of the report is that the more open the systems are around these practices and the more collaborative this the stakeholders within this pyramid are the more effective the services and relationships are going to be for the folks at the top of the pyramid which is the researchers themselves. The report is structured with as kind of high level, like across the board recommendations why these are good practices, and then it's broken up into stakeholder groups I'm just going to use the example of researchers as one as one segment. And this is the way it's laid out so there's the sort of introductory context for the group within the ecosystem researchers have many demands on their time and attention. So incentives for adoption for that group, and then recommendations themselves. So, which are some are easier than others to implement we get that, but they are all practical, achievable and sort of widely endorsed by the community. The point of the toolkit is to help help you figure out how to have these conversations and some discussion questions around, you know that might arise as you discuss them within within your own institutions. So, will show the URL again at the end for the toolkit but what it includes are shareable slides that you can customize to your own institution that have things like value proposition and the recommendations themselves, you know you could scope it just to that to a particular group you were talking to you. And then certainly of course, use this opportunity to link to and include services that exist already on your campus and where people local contacts and where people would go for help in your institution. We also include in the toolkit, the again the reading list that we circulated in advance of our conference and that we've all contributed to. And then the conference at a glance the kind of questions we asked people are key takeaways. Again, the kind of core, the five core kids that we're recommending an incentive for adoption. So, like I said, the, you know, some of these practices will be easier to implement than others so one of the, you know, to accompany the slides and recommendations themselves. We've created some discussion questions to go along with it again by by stakeholder groups or for researchers designed to help you basically as collaborators and service providers sort of really dig into how to implement these practices. The gaps might exist in your institutional workflow, how you might advance them, and then at the same time what services already exist so another opportunity to show people what, you know, what you're already doing in libraries and research offices and collaboratively in order to advance these practices. So, with that, I'm going to turn it over to Casey. Thank you, Judy. I'm Casey right I'm the associate VP of research and some education at the Association of Public and Landgate universities. It's a hired association here in DC. We, I think what would be best, since we're in a webinar situation is to just go right into the padlet and give people, our audience members a chance to sort of interact in that way so I am going to get ready one second and put it into the chat. And then I'll share my screen so we can see in a second but so we have a padlet here. And this is a space where the audience members can put sticky notes essentially on a question that we're asking back to the community. So, we thought it would be really helpful if one if we better understood sort of what you guys thought success looks like for the CNI community. And then we also thought it'd be useful for you guys to hear from one another, what what success looks like so we share my screen. And maybe just want some more second, because that opened up a window to have the, to have the report open. Okay, so I'm sharing the padlet here I see people are already starting to add so that's awesome. And if for some reason just technologically you can't access the padlet, you can also drop it into the chat and we will move will be moving it over so I'm going to give folks just a couple of minutes to add to the padlet. And if you see there's a, there's a plus at the bottom right hand corner that you can click on to add a post it note. So what would success for the implementation implementation of machine actual DMPs and PIDs look like at your campus. So one of the postsets we see, and you can also as some of you have seen you can upload posts those that you think are especially good points. Success would be streamlined coordination among research data service and infrastructure support. Another one is the contents of a DMP would be shared across the campus for better awareness of upcoming and ongoing data needs. We have my library would be able to quickly discover the research outputs data publications and our researchers produce and and at no cost. There's this idea that this is would be incorporated into research administration systems and checklist so that sort of potential like a compliance sort of piece that we can sort of follow what hasn't hasn't been done. Success would include knowing what data needs are and what the PI say they will do regarding data management, always trying to get buy in from faculty is always a challenge. I'll give another 30 seconds or so for more ideas to come in and then bring those forward. Every DMP would include do is or pearls for where outputs could be found. And then the machine actual DMPs would allow the do is and DMPs to connect someone's added that the tracking research for impact and assessment reporting that has been one thing that, as we've been, you know engaged in these discussions is, how do we start to reward this work and what sort of reward is thinking about how to assess impact. So I think that's sort of the next frontier thinking about this work about how we do that in the humanities into the discussion there's often a strong sense that data practices only pertain to the sciences. And then, and then there's been a question so whoever Katie's asked you have any resources on sharing data and humanities. I'm uploading so it looks like tracking research for impact and assessment has a couple of thumbs up, and this fostering the cross campus collaboration on data management to build coalition. Often when library start the discussion we fear that we will be stuck with unfunded mandates that one's gotten a couple of uploads. And then success would look like many systems using orchids as unique IDs, if we could just get that minimum bar that would be great. So that's just for the idea of being able to share the contents of the DMP across units on a campus, being able to articulate the value of PIDs other stakeholders owning this space. Oops, I'm going faster than than john is being able to add his thoughts. I think maybe we've we've had a good amount of time to sort of to dig into this, this piece and so maybe we'll check the questions and answers. So we'll keep this open so as people add to it we can. I'll try to bring in some of that discussion and if folks have questions or you know have things to put in the chat we can bring that into but if you did have any questions for us the question and answer box is open as well for that's in the zoom webinar. So we're ready to take those. Did you guys did my co host see anything that I might have missed any good ones. I don't know that you missed it I mean you use it has a lot of upvotes this contents of the DMP would be shared across campus that was a huge theme of the conference that and you know and it's part of making it active sort of pulling it out of the funding proposal and figuring out a way to share it so that it really becomes a communication vehicle I just think that was a core insight. I also had some discussion about how public to make it in win right so. I think we were all in support of having the DMPs be at the end of a grant be made available is also it's kind of a way a catalog of what folks might look, you know might be looking for his data sets from a research from a research project. John were there any of these that you wanted to sort of bring into the discussion that you wanted to expand upon. I'm sure yes so I think that as Judy was saying you know our, our project was inspired by this dear colleague letter from NSF and that dear colleague letter was really a conversation between NSF and NSF researchers. And while that conversation was going on there's obviously other conversations going on in the library space about how we as libraries can interact with other cross campus communities and departments on research data research data practices. And so this conference this this discussion here was really trying to empower libraries in a space that we definitely have a tradition of being involved in, but in many ways we can be left out of discussions or feel like we are out of discussions on different dynamics, they might be funding as was in here about, you know, not feeling that it's appropriate for us to start discussions about research data when we know we don't have the funding to, to back it up and being afraid that will be stuck with unfunded mandates that maybe we're involved in making another dynamic might be that research it or the grants office might be in charge of the information a little bit more than we are. And so there's just not that cross campus collaboration and there's just not the understanding of whether or not the library is really the place that would have the information, for example with a DMP a researcher fills that out and while we are helping with consulting. We might not be able to to to have all the information available to us to help researcher. And so we're kind of a little worried or unaware or unsure if that's the kind of place where we should put our, our resources. So there's these different dynamics that are at play and what we were really trying to do at this conference is, you know, one just reassure the library community that there is a very practical and impactful way for libraries to contribute. And the other is really to to very clearly articulate select this practical no nonsense approach is like just articulate exactly what that value can be and how close it is to where we already are as a library community. We are many times either through those dynamics or just through our own day to day work. We forget that libraries are very much at the center of this idea of research data because it does rely on our traditions of stewardship and and cataloging and metadata and information science so we we wanted to make sure that we could address the questions that were brought up from things like the dear colleague letter that are very much couched in these science to science terminology. But we wanted to bring that and demystify that down to how can librarians talk about it and be involved in the conversation. And I think that's one of the things that was very telling about our discussion is that, you know, as we broke it down stakeholder by stakeholder it was very easy to see that librarians already know these things, even if the terminology is a little jargon ish. If it's like, you know, seems a little techie or a little bit too much about research office or grant office inner workings. But one of the nice things about this board here is that we're seeing, you know, there is this real understanding that librarians are involved in things like not just consulting around data management plans but actually interested in the inner workings of the information within it and how it can impact different departments on campuses and within the library. And that, you know, libraries are obviously involved in kids and persistent identifiers, but really understanding that those persistent identifiers are not just in themselves, kids, they are packages of metadata that can travel and be linked to other entities. Again, these are all concepts that we work on within libraries all the time. And once we demystify that kind of the way kids and active DMPs and everything kind of are being discussed out in the wild through RDA and other places we can really see a clear home and a place for librarians to remain involved in the in the discussion. And so I would say that we were very successful in creating a very no nonsense practical guide so I would recommend everybody taking a look at it and I would, you know, thank you to ARL for the leadership on pulling together the toolkit. It is something that actually can be grabbed leveraged librarians who even maybe don't have as much information around research data can definitely leverage it and can quickly understand how they can be involved in the conversations on their and it gives context to specific stakeholders that you're working with. And I just put up the final slide so we didn't have to switch back to duty of the sort of where you can find more which we also dropped into the chat. So the I guess the only other things we'll say, please check out the resources. And I'll put a plug in for a UN APL use accelerating public access to research data a part work. So we're looking in the new year to have our guide out to the community so sometimes February ish spring will say spring will just like you know spring ish early spring of 2021 and are working on a second summit so we will be sharing that out with our communities. So look for that we a UN APL you have worked with ARL on this report because we do really see the value of the librarian community and are thinking about how can this be a cross campus effort right it's going to take a lot of it's going to take a lot of hands with a lot of expertise and ownership of different parts of the puzzle, and just trying to come together and have a coherent right cohesive systemic way to support researchers and doing this work. So, I'm not seeing any questions come through the question and answer piece or the chat so do we want to just say thank you all for coming and pass it back to CNI CNI folks. Excellent thank you. Thank you so much for that wonderful talk, we really appreciate hearing about your work in this area and thank you so much for coming to CNI and sharing it with our community. We're just about at time so I'm going to go ahead and close down the session with thanks to our panelists thanks to our attendees. I'm going to turn off the recording now but I will invite our attendees who are still with us if you want to hang around and have a chat with our speakers please feel free to do so just raise your hand, and I'll be happy to turn on your microphone. And with that, thanks everyone take care hope to see you back at CNI soon. Bye.


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And when did you install the first course plug in that? Oh, I can't remember right now It was probably Approximately. Oh, I would say in 1964 Early and you said that was the first in Canada It was the first porous plug in major steel facility and We had out by that time we had a little Research lab at the fast school in the back of the template storage area and we had induction furnace there so we could make small pots of liquid steel and Put small porous blocks in the bottom and bubble our gun up through it and see what that effect would be before we put them in labels of 100 times the amount of steel So and then In the steel making plan And so the porous plugs there from that arm of the fast school and it worked out there's a good Way of stirring more steel Because the important steel on the lathe but quite often it would be segregation things like that segregation of chemistry segregation of temperature Both were critical to the quality of the steel. It was a good Step forward for the fast-goer Though not many young people Anxious to put porous plugs in the bottom of the lathe but people thought well, I'll go my steel Eventually tried one, but somehow they didn't put it in properly and it leaked through and they had a The bottom of the lathe of the steel which that stopped them from making quite a hit


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Hello everyone. Welcome to Renault Talks IP. I'm Renault Lavoie with Read All Communication. I would like to thank everyone who sent me questions and comments about Renault Talks IP and IP in general. One customer contacted me and asked me how I can view my IP signal. Everything is on IP 2110 2022. There is no way to see that. And I was thinking to myself, yeah, that's easy. But I looked at commercial television or monitor. There is no input to feed a 2110 or 2022-6. And I said, oh, is there any switch, cut switches, with HDMI? No. You can feed the Read All Medianet IP HDMI in your switch. But still, maybe it's not the right application. Maybe you have a remote monitor you want to attach. So for this reason, because Read All Medianet IP is active in the IP for years, for this reason, we created the Fusion 3 boxes. So the Fusion 3 enable you to connect two monitors, two network, sorry, as you can see on my left side, two networks, red and blue, and connect one HDMI monitor. We have a version that is also passive, so no more fan, if let's say you have to do that in your audio room. But we did push a little bit more the envelope. We created for you a Fusion 6 box. As you can see, there are six cages on it. So the six cages enable you, in some cases, to connect four monitor 1.4. So if you have multiple monitors, three gig signal, you want to put them on your screen, the Fusion 6 will enable you to connect four monitors with only one box. And more importantly, two networks, one fiber. So the Fusion 3 boxes is also useful if you have one critical monitor, you don't want this monitor to go away, you don't want to lose anything. So you said, this is my critical monitor. So you can use the Fusion 3, connect your two network, redone the network, and then you connect your screen on it. So we also support UHD and HDR. One thing I said to this customer after contacting him, I said, look, just be aware, not all the IP to HDMI are the same. We thought in RIDOL, we thought about future proofing. So we did 10 gig and 25 gig. We said, okay, we have to support HDR, because if you have HDR in 2110, you want to show it, you want to see it, you want to not go to an SDR monitor. And if you buy an HDR monitor, you want to make sure that the middle between the IP and HDMI support HDR. We do HDMI 1.4, we do HDMI 2.0, we do 444 or 422 as well. So audio shuffling is also possible. And we also send you a small perks with it. Now, let's say you have this box, like remotely, and you said, oh, I want to have intercom. I want to control something. So now we add the RG45. It's a tunnel. So you can control, you can send your intercom at distance, control equipment, send data. So we just tunnel it, we don't touch it. So that with one fiber, then you can connect, let's say three monitors, you can have one RG45 for your intercom, for your audio, for your control of camera, and so on and so on. So one thing to remember, not all the IP or IP to HDMI are the same. So you have to be careful. I hope this explains how we can monitor now the 2110-2022 on an HDMI screen. And for more information, please don't hesitate and go to see readall.net. We have more RUNOTOX IP and more to come. Thank you very much. Have a wonderful day.


Hey, this is Brett and this 2011 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport 3LT Convertible is stock number 13053Z. I'm here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used sports car headquarters. This 2011 Chevrolet Corvette convertible 3LT Grand Sport has the 6.2 liter V8 gas engine, puts out 430 horsepower. This car has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this car is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around inside, start it up, take a look under the hood, take a look inside the trunk. In this video, Arctic White is the color, and I shoot all my videos in 4K, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, options, and cleanliness of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you like the video and how I do things here at Summit Automotive, consider clicking the subscribe button to my YouTube channel in the lower right hand part of the screen, and then click the bell notifications and you'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day here at Summit Automotive. This one comes with the 18-inch chrome to alloy rims in the front. It has Goodyear Eagle F1 275 35 ZR18 tires, and these tires I would say have just about all the tread left on them. This currently has 3,000-some miles on it. You get the Corvette brakes with the cross-drilled rotors, you get the Grand Sport logo right there. The front fender is in excellent condition, I didn't see any scuffs or scrapes on there, and this one does of course have the HID headlamps, you can see the headlight lenses are nice and clear, and it of course has the front fog lamps. Front bumper and lower valance is in pretty nice condition, I didn't see any scuffs or scrapes on the bumper. I will say that this lower valance, they have some sort of, I'm not really sure if that was for a licensed plate holder or something at some point, but they actually had cut this piece off. You can't really tell if you're not looking for it, but that is like that, and I just want to point it out because these are used cars and they're not all going to be perfect, but I'm sure this lower valance piece isn't that much to replace. You do get the 100th anniversary logo on the Corvette logo there, so that's a pretty cool thing to have. The hood is in fantastic condition as well. This thing's got some really cool interior, it's black and white, and I'm guessing that's part of the 100th package as well. Passengers side front fender looks really good, no scuffs or scrapes, and the passenger side rim no major scuffs on there. Looks really good. And as you go down this side of this 2011 Chevrolet Corvette convertible, 3LT Grand Sport, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the car, you can see the car, hear the car, and have confidence in the vehicle you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises, and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. That soft top is in really nice condition. The other thing I wanted to point out on this car is that it does have the carbon fiber side skirts, also has some carbon fiber inserts right there, and if this video helps you make a smart buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video that was helpful and that Brett sent you. Now in the back, we have the 19-inch rims, and these are good to your Eagle F1s as well, but they're P32530ZR19s. If you get the cross-drilled rotors back here, you can see just how much tread is left on those tires. Frame and underbody looks really good and clean. And then that carbon fiber comes around the back here, and then also goes onto the back of the bumper. The rear bumper is in nice shape, does have some custom exhaust on it as well. That whole piece, that whole back diffuser is a carbon fiber too. The quad-tipped dual rear exhaust doesn't have a name on that exhaust, but sounds really good. We'll start it up in just a second. That rear bumper is in great shape. This one does have the 100 badge on the back as well. Trunk area is very clean, and those shocks are doing a nice job pulling that trunk up. Shuts nice and solidly, and as you go down the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger's side, those scuffs or scrapes on the rear quarter. And for full disclosure, this back rim is in fantastic condition as well, so all the rims on this car look really, really good. I didn't see any scuffs on any of them. Driver's side door looks really good, and it does come with the power mirrors. The 3LT package, and my guess is the 100th package, gives you this really good looking black and white leather interior. The seats seem to be bolstered a little bit more than the normal Corvette seats. Power driver's seat, factory floor mats, power windows, power locks, power mirrors, memory driver's seat. You get the red stitching on the door as well. It does have the Bose sound system. We'll hop inside, check out the miles, the radio, and everything that this car has to offer on the interior. This is going to make me start it, which is fine. We'll start her up. See that this one only has 3,485 miles. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. 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Kind of push it up like so. I like putting it back in like that. Then you just press the button over here and then it goes. You'll hear it click and then you know it's down properly. Alright, so we'll just take a listen to that exhaust for a second. We'll check out under the hood and then we'll do a final walk around with the top off. It sounds really good. I mean it's not overly loud but it's not very high idle right now. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you have been able to verify the quality condition options and cleanliness of this car all the way around, inside and out. Under the hood we have the 6.2 liter LS3 V8 engine. Engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth. Super clean under here and once again this car has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this car is 100% ready to go. 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Today we have a bevy of news for you guys, 3 really big stories and then a ton of release states and updates on games already known or even games not known that now have release states. I'm really excited about all of this stuff, I don't want to waste too much of your time so we're going to hop right in after I remind you that we are on our road to 150,000 subscribers so if you want to drop a like and subscribe to the channel and ring a link on the bell icon so we can notify you of every video we upload that would be greatly appreciated but without further ado let's jump right into our very first story and this deals with Pokemon, Scarlet and Violet. Now normally when this comes out we're talking DLC, we're talking something crazy but today we're actually talking about concept art that was released by CDEC today and what's really interesting about this concept art is it's just the one image that really stands out to me, there's like a handful of them but I'm going to ignore the other handful but I will put a link down in the description if you would like to check those out. But we're going to focus on this one image because it shows a gorgeous scene that never really fully manifest that well in the actual game. It just showed their ambition may have exceeded their capabilities or their execution or maybe just the switch can't do this, that's a common thought all the time, the switch isn't that powerful or whatever but it does show that visually they have an idea and a concept of something that they haven't really fully realized in the series yet and it does show that there's likely to be a lot of visual improvements especially on the next generation switch in terms of just the ambition of what they want to do with Pokemon visually especially the environments, obviously we know the Pokemon are all simple designs but yeah it'll be quite interesting to see what they do and hopefully that this concept art maybe gives us an idea that there's somewhere else they'd like to go from a visual perspective and they just quite haven't gotten there yet. Now that we're done with that we're going to move into a new section that we're going to call Quick Hits because it's a bunch of news that we're going to rattle through super quickly but it's all very very notable. So Turok 3 is coming to Nintendo Switch and other platforms this November, whole bunch of changes to it, you guys are seeing clips of it right now, looks utterly fantastic, I played a ton of Turok 3 back in the day, really glad to see this coming to Nintendo Switch this November, we don't have an exact day yet though, Steamworld build not to be confused with Steamworld Dig although it's the same IP, it is coming to Switch this December 1st and it does look utterly incredible, your building stuff, your building houses and villages and it just looks really really good and I always love the Steamworld art direction. Next up we have Star Wars Dark Forces Remaster was announced for Nintendo Switch but we don't have a release date on this yet, they did say that they will give us a release date in the future, okay I mean duh, it looks pretty solid, they redid some of the visuals obviously still maintaining that older style, I'll admit this is one of those Star Wars games from my childhood I didn't actually play so if some of you played Dark Forces let me know how good this game is and if I should check it out. Next up we do have an update for Sonic Frontiers, this was announced at Gamescom opening night live, the final horizon free update was announced and it does drop next month and what's really interesting on this by the way, September 28th we do have a date on this, it features a brand new story and the ability to play as Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy and what they are calling a climatic free update so whether this is the last update coming or the climax of the story, I don't know but anyways I love Sonic Frontiers so it's really nice to see a free update coming, not to be outdone, Sonic Superstars has some updates as well, it's arriving October 17th which is three days before Mario Wonder and Spider-Man 2, also the original design for Sonic will be playable and we're not just saying like oh you know Sonic on the Sega Genesis, I don't know we're talking about this rabbit looking weird thing, I don't know, it's playable in the game as a character, pretty interesting, maybe it's just a skin we'll have to wait and see, next up we do have another date for something that's not a game but it's game related and Tears of the Kingdom is likely to be involved and that of course is the game awards, it was announced for December 7th, we're not going to dive too deep into the game awards now we'll wait until they have all their nominees and their categories and all of that but it's coming back and yeah Tears of the Kingdom is probably up for Game of the Year so that's going to be one to pay attention to, next up we have the Metal Gear Collection Volume 1 on Switch has gotten some tech detail updates confirmed and man people are not happy about this so it's 720p in handheld, 1080p on you know docked that's fine but it's 30 FPS and only on switches at 30 FPS and what makes people really mad about this is this isn't a remaster, this isn't anything fancy that they're doing, it is a collection of old Metal Gear games and on old systems like the PlayStation 2 the games were 60 FPS, why they're not 60 FPS on Switch makes no sense to anyone but their 60 FPS on all of the other platforms really feels like they just didn't put any effort into the Switch ports at this time I don't know it's why people are mad it doesn't make any sense these are not new games they're old games whatever, next up last but not least Switch does remain the second best-selling console for the month of July in North America reportedly its unit sales were pretty close to PlayStation 5 and well ahead of the Xbox series there's nothing notable for game sales really for the month of July beyond remnant to overall being the best-selling game in July and of course we're just talking about North American sales here so Switch is still selling pretty well but obviously it's in a decline it is down year over year for the month of July so that's going to do it for our quick hit section that's going to do our next big story and this deals with DeNuvo you know gamers favorite DRM to prevent piracy oh boy you already know that this is going to be a rough a rough one right it's it this is going to be tough to talk about so we're here over on the official website for DeNuvo versus Project Renewable Empowered it says DeNuvo by Erdato I don't know I can't pronounce their name now registered as an authorized Nintendo Switch middleware game developers and publishers can now access the video game protection software in the middleware section of the Nintendo developers portal so DeNuvo the global global leader in providing security solutions for video games on desktop console and mobile platforms is pleased to announce its protection technologies are now available on the Nintendo developer portal as authorized by Nintendo Switch middleware the Nintendo developer portal offers documentation tools and other useful materials we're not going to go through this whole announcement we're just going to get to what this the intent of DeNuvo is on Nintendo Switch if you can't even figure that out so it says that DeNuvo is the first security partner added into the portal where developers are now able to access Nintendo Switch emulator protection a revolutionary technology to protect games launching on Nintendo Switch from piracy even if a game is protected against piracy on its pc version the version released on Nintendo Switch can be emulated from day one and played on pc therefore bypassing the strong protections offered on the pc version this can happen with any of the numerous games available on switch regions saw it happen with tears of the kingdom and Pikmin 4 by blocking unauthorized emulations on pc studios are able to increase their revenue during the game launch window which is the most important period for monetization well for most games nintendo has uh evergreen status with their games anyways the nintendo switch emulator protection will ensure that anyone wishing to play the game has to buy a legitimate copy as with all other DeNuvo solutions the technologies integrates seamlessly into the build toolchain with no impact on gaming performance i feel like they say this all the time then we later find out it actually does impact performance anyways it then allows for the insertion of checks into the code which blocks gameplay on emulators as gamers we know firsthand how piracy negatively affects the gaming industry most gamers don't really complain that much about it but outside of leaks you know leaking story details and stuff and we're thrilled to be part of the nintendo developer portal so that we can provide the latest technology to help fight this issue for nintendo switch players and developers as the ceo so that's that's cool and it is true nintendo has had a big issue with this stuff but i want to go to this article on this website i've actually never been to says make use of and they go a little bit into what DeNuvo is and why do gamers hate it because this is obviously something that if you don't know the history of DeNuvo as nintendo switch players it's good to know why gamers really don't like it it's got nothing to do with preventing you from pirating games has to actually do with hurting legit consumers while people who pirate games continue to pirate them pretty much without issue uh so this goes into you know popular things like competitive multiplayer so what is drm and anti-cheat software when it comes to video games cheats have always been around from spawning tons of weapons and grants of auto to seeing through walls while hacking fps games like counter strike and call of duty video game cheats allow players to gain unfair advantage by exploiting the game's core mechanics an anti-cheat tool is a piece of software integrated into the game to control cheating by detecting cheaters now this is not really what we're worried about right now we're actually worried about piracy but we'll get to that in a moment anti-cheat software either works from the user mode or the kernel mode drm or digital rights management software on the other hand deals primarily with protecting the game's code and dlls from being hooked hijacked or tampered with in any way ensuring integrity in the game code and preventing piracy so what does DeNuvo do DeNuvo is primarily a drm software additionally it's an anti-cheat solution stops people from cracking and pirating games and also identifies and bans cheaters in multiplayer games DeNuvo is most famous for or in the video game circle infamous for its key feature anti tamper protection when implemented as drm and employees techniques like obfuscation and anti debugging implementations virtualization and encryption on the video games core files to fortress the video game from being reverse engineered and cracked by video game piracy groups it also implements online activation in hardware signing to prevent unauthorized access to the game and this has become a very controversial point in the DeNuvo process that has hurt legit consumers DeNuvo is an anti-cheat and an equally tough nut to crack we're not going to worry about the anti-cheat stuff we're going to go down here and we're going to why do some people hate DeNuvo DeNuvo anti-cheat uses kernel level drivers to function so if someone manages to exploit it to gain access to the kernel they can access almost everything stored on your computer so there's that it's not very good at having security for your whole thing but but there's other things almost all games that are protected by DeNuvo anti tamper suffer from increased loading times lower frame rates and other performance issues so even though it claims it has no hit to performance games using DeNuvo have longer load times lower frame rates and often resolution issues yes folks DeNuvo has shown an impact on performance despite their claims it gets worse DeNuvo can leave developers with a hefty bill so it's not always good for developers as well because it is a service that you must pay to use and yeah it knows the video game anti-cheats and DRM are obviously here to stay one thing it's not noting in here and I can say this based on my personal experience dealing with DeNuvo is that sometimes you can't even access your video game if you don't have an online connection now I don't know they're going to use this technique on Nintendo Switch since it's a portable system that isn't always meant to have an internet connection but it is notable on PC yeah sometimes you just can't play your game well hack people who are playing a hacked version of the game that removed DeNuvo are not only seeing better performance they're also able to play it offline so I'm it's not necessarily been a good thing in the industry seen by most gamers but it is something that we do have to deal with and now it's coming to Nintendo Switch here's hoping they somehow made it better I don't know that they can but let's open uh we need to get to our next story here and we're gonna end with a happier story or at least some sort of a positive note here talking about a next generation Nintendo Switch game from Nintendo this time a first party next generation game that's right we actually have news um something what is it the next Xenoblade game that's right Xenoblade would likely be something vastly different says the series director and we're getting this news over on Nintendo everything so according to Xenoblade Chronicles director Tetsuya Takahashi assuming that we see another entry in the series which it's been growing so I assume we will they've in fact they released two of them plus the definitive edition um switch that's three games just didn't get x I don't know what's up with that anyways a message from him was included in a recently released Xenoblade Chronicles 3 soundtrack so this is official stuff here's what the translation reads rather than playing on defense going on the offense change rather than maintain this is a stance I have continued to hold for 30 years if there is another Xenoblade which they're clearly will because it sells well it will likely be something vastly different from what came before in style and in music I would like to make my next goal something that will betray everyone's expectations in a good way of course this leads it to you guys to figure out what sort of experimentation is actually going to be happening with Xenoblade Chronicles 3 like I'm not gonna sit here and pretend that I'm the biggest Xenoblade you know aficionado and know everything about it despite dabbling in all the games but man it is exciting to think that you know what even with Xenoblade they think there's ways it can innovate and you know just surprise our expectations in the future and obviously the next Xenoblade games since the last one just came out this year believe it or not well at least the DLC right uh yeah we're obviously going to see this next one on the next generation of hardware and I can't wait to see what monolith soft can do with that kind of power anyways folks thank you so much for tuning in it's been a long road to get to the end of this video be sure you turn into our podcast tonight or if you're watching this tomorrow go back and watch our podcast that happened at 8 p.m. central time on the 26th or whatever day it is a 23rd sorry 23rd and you know what we got switch force on there we got Andres restart Nick would know okay flam is back we got Eric back on the show it's going to be good times so hopefully you guys go check that out as we talk about Charles Marnay's retirement and more we have actually quite a bit to talk about catch you guys in the next video


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