RE: E-journals

["Jean-michel BENOIT" <Jean-Michel.BENOIT@gemplus.com>]

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\uc1\pard\plain\deftab360 \f0\fs20\cf0 Just my last post about the subject before it gets too far off-topic : there is the pdf format that DOES protect the document ( even if it is not 100% unfalsifiable, it is VERY hard to break, French admins use it for offical documents online ). AFAIK, a lot of the scientific litterature on the web is in pdf format and thus protected. Now, back to dinosaurs...\par
Cheers,\par
Jean-Michel\par
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From: Graydon [mailto:graydon@dsl.ca]\par
Sent: mercredi 5 septembre 2001 16:55\par
To: Patty Ralrick\par
Cc: mike@tecc.co.uk; Jean-Michel BENOIT [GEMPLUS]; dinosaur@usc.edu\par
Subject: Re: E-journals\par
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On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:14:02PM +0000, Patty Ralrick scripsit:\par
> Thanks for the reassurances.  They do make me feel better about\par
> things.  But I do know of a person in the paleontological world who\par
> has a history of "cracking" into computer systems and changing things,\par
> so I'm still rather untrusting.\par
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It's straightforward to maintain an encryption scheme for the stored\par
papers that makes them very hard to modify on the site.\par
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Whether or not this will be done is the relevant question, not *if* it\par
can be done.  Electronic document security is a solved problem; the\par
problem is convience tends to push down the willingness to implement the\par
solution.\par
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('hacker' isn't a label for doing something illegal; 'hacker' is a\par
term for being a creative programmer, in that social group.\par
Unfortunately, the term gets used by the media for 'computer criminal'.\par
This annoys the first group rather much.)\par
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-- \par
                           graydon@dsl.ca\par
               To maintain the end is to uphold the means.\par
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