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Links: Palladium is Dead; Long Live Longhorn?
Posted by James Grimmelmann on Wednesday, May 05 @ 15:02:23 EDT Cryptography
Microsoft is reportedly killing the Next-Generation Secure Computing Base, affectionately known as "NGSCB," but more famous as "Palladium," its original code name. NGSCB was Microsoft's stab at trusted computing, in which computers can offer up cryptographic proof that they haven't been hacked.

Although Microsoft was touting NGSCB as a security measure and a way to disable pirated copies of software, others were more excited about its possibilities for creating more robust digital rights management. No word yet on what Microsoft's move will mean for the whole DRM-in-hardware jihad; it's also unclear to what extent much Microsoft's forthcoming (any decade now) new operating system, "Longhorn," will try to impelement some of the same ideas.

 
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Denied by Microsoft (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Wednesday, May 05 @ 23:30:53 EDT
According to an article at Microsoft Watch [www.microsoft-watch.com], Microsoft deny that Palladium is dead. (Link seen at Slashdot [slashdot.org].)


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