Comment Re:I thought we LIKED this? Yes. (Score 1) 306
There is nothing in the math that ties it exclusively to the RIAA or even music.
What's new is just that encryption and decryption is fast and cheap, so that it could be used by default in almost all Internet communication, in cellular phones, smaller devices (and in case the customers really want that to keep the RIAA in power).
I am sure the technology will mainly be used where it benefits both the supplier and the consumer: secure WWW transactions, private communication etc.
So, YES I LIKE the fast public key encryption. I don't like that a new idea is described by the media only as a solution to a fashionable but out-dated problem.
Also, I don't like much that it is patented.
