It’s The Nate Lawson Show!

Thomas Ptacek | March 22nd, 2007 | Filed Under: Uncategorized

Got a newsreader? Stop what you’re doing right now and subscribe immediately to Nate Lawson’s new blog. As with Halvar, the more you click on Nate, the more he’ll write. And I want him to write more, so please get clicking.

If you’re not familiar with Nate, here’s a rundown:

  • Busted root with Sun binmail, for Bugtraq, in 1994. I graduated from high school in 1994 (my first finding wasn’t until 1995!).

  • Designed and implemented the first rev of RealSecure, the first commercial network IDS.

  • Built the first rev of Decru’s kernel SAN protocol implementation at SAN-encryptor Decru (now NetApp).

  • At Paul Kocher’s Cryptography Research, co-designed and implemented the SPDC DRM scheme used by Blu Ray’s BD+ protection. AACS is busted; BD+ still stands.

You may also remember Nate from such previous blog posts as, “RSA Signature Forgery Explained”. Right now, he’s plotting out a series on software protection (from anti-rev-eng through DRM schemes), using Commodore 64 game copy protection as his teaching aid. You have no business not reading every one of these posts and I forbid you from commenting here until you do.

3 Comments so far

  • Nate

    March 22nd, 2007 8:53 pm

    Thanks for the praise. I just posted the next article on media binding, the first step in developing copy protection. Later chapters will include anti-debugging/tampering, obfuscation, hardware protection, and attacks.

    I’ll see how long it takes before I develop the same biting tone as your blog. Perhaps once I have a few advisories sitting in the vendor queue for a year. When were the rest of your agent holes going to get published? 2010?

  • Thomas Ptacek

    March 22nd, 2007 9:56 pm

    Oh, shit. We have advisories to get out. I really should get back on that.

  • Ryan Russell

    March 22nd, 2007 10:29 pm

    As with Halvar, the more you click on Nate, the more he’ll write.

    Done! Hey wait… Halvar hardly ever writes…

    I graduated from high school in 1994

    Young punk.

    BD+ still stands.

    What? DRM/copy protection is born broken.

    Commodore 64 game copy protection as his teaching aid.

    That was awesome! More of that!

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