NGSCB Feature May Help Pirates, Study Says

Record labels and movie studios are eagerly anticipating the potential file protection capabilities of Microsoft Corp.'s Next-Generation Secure Computing Base technology, but new research contends the architecture's security features may also help pirates and file swappers protect their ill-gotten gains.

At the heart of the issue, according to a paper due to be published this week by researchers from Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., is a key feature of NGSCB called remote attestation. The technology lets one piece of code digitally sign another program or a piece of data to assure the recipient of the signature that the code was built by a cryptographically identifiable software stack.

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