Stephen King eBook cracked (Re: Pack, RISKS-20.85)

["Peter G. Neumann" <neumann@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pirated PDF versions of Stephen King's "Riding the Bullet" have been
circulating on the Internet since 17 Mar 2000.  While many ISPs have
forced
members to remove the decrypted files, they are still available from a
Swiss
site, providing stark evidence of security weaknesses in PC-based eBook
distribution systems.  The episode has irked the companies developing
such
systems, who complain that export restrictions have kept them from using
more powerful encryption techniques.  [Source: "Cracking the Bullet:
Hackers
Decrypt PDF Version of Stephen King eBook, by Glenn Sanders and Wade
Roush,
23 Mar 2000, full text at http://www.ebooknet.com/story.jsp?id=1671]

  [But as RISKS readers know, strong crypto by itself is not enough.]

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