[ILUG] Question on an encryption system (using OSS)

Paul Jakma paul at clubi.ie
Tue Sep 13 15:46:26 IST 2005


On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Braun Brelin wrote:

> The concept is that I want people to be able to download the files, 
> but, if they want to view them, then they have to go through me to 
> get the key. The reason I want to use P2P is so that I don't have 
> to eat the costs of transferring the data. Braun

How much do you care about the key being common and ending up on P2P? 
:) Even if you figure out a way to do it, what about the user putting 
the decrypted file on P2P?

Some other model, which does not rely on the file itself to keep 
users honest, may be other - as someone else pointed out.

regards,
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