Windows Vista Content Protection Overview

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Windows Vista Content Protection
Threat-modelling the attempt to seal an open architecture
Peter Gutmann
University of Auckland
Overview
What is it?
?Intent of Vista’s content-protection measures
?(Brief) Coverage of the technical mechanisms
Problems
?Some of the ways that it can go wrong
Analysis
?Effects on the industry
?Inside look at Microsoft politics: Why they did it
Closing thoughtsA Note on Sources.
Content-protection details were taken from a variety of
sources
?See http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~
pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html (now rather out of
date) for a few other references and technical information
Best Microsoft reference is “Output Content Protection and
Windows Vista” from WHDC
?Otherwise unattributed supporting quotes are taken from
various Microsoft documents
Best third-party comment, from ATI, is “Digital Media
Content Protection” from WinHEC
A Note on Sources. (ctd)
Other information was gathered from as wide a range of
sources as (practically) feasible
?Hardware review sites, web forums, news articles, blogs, .
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opposite result
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Updates, corrections, and further information from readers
welcomed…