A Security Analysis of My.MP3.com and the Beam-it Protocol
| dc.contributor.author | Stubblefield, Adam | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Wallach, Dan S. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-02T22:02:47Z | en_US |
| dc.date.available | 2017-08-02T22:02:47Z | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2000-03-08 | en_US |
| dc.date.note | March 8, 2000 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | My.MP3.com is a service that streams audio in the MP3 format to its users. In order to resolve copyright concerns, the service first requires that a user prove he or she owns the right to listen to a particular CD. The mechanism used for the verification is a program called Beam-it which reads a random subset of an audio CD and interacts with the My.MP3.com servers using a proprietary protocol. This paper presents a reverse-engineering of the protocol and the client-side code which implements it. An analysis of Beam-it's security implications and speculations as to the Beam-it server architecture are also presented. We found the protocol to provide strong protection against a user pretending to have a music CD without actually possessing it, however we found the protocol to be unnecessarily verbose and includes information that some users may prefer to keep private. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 6 pp | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Stubblefield, Adam and Wallach, Dan S.. "A Security Analysis of My.MP3.com and the Beam-it Protocol." (2000) https://hdl.handle.net/1911/96272. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.digital | TR00-353 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1911/96272 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | You are granted permission for the noncommercial reproduction, distribution, display, and performance of this technical report in any format, but this permission is only for a period of forty-five (45) days from the most recent time that you verified that this technical report is still available from the Computer Science Department of Rice University under terms that include this permission. All other rights are reserved by the author(s). | en_US |
| dc.title | A Security Analysis of My.MP3.com and the Beam-it Protocol | en_US |
| dc.type | Technical report | en_US |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | en_US |
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