[free-sklyarov] Fact Sheet.

[Daniel Richards]

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Dmitry Sklyarov Fact Sheet.
This is what I have been able to peice together so far, in no 
particular order.
Please feel free to add/correct anything here (To the list, please)
(Permission is granted to distribute/quote this document, such that it 
is)
It's probably not complete either.

a) Dmitry Sklyarov is a 26 year old from Russia.
He is married to Oksana and has two children. A 2 1/2 year old boy 
named Egor and a three month old daughter, Polina.
Dmitry works for Elcomsoft (URL) (as a cryptoanalyst? It´s unown if 
he codes)
Mr. Sklyarov, a tall, lanky graduate student with a lopsided smile, is 
currently completing his Ph.D. at Moscow State Technical 
University. His dissertation, which examines the security of 
electronic book software, 

b) Elcomsoft writes various programs to crack/recover passwords 
on documents, including various "Mail Utilities". They have also done 
business with the FBI.

b) What was he arrested for? The FBI claims 
(http://cryptome.org/usa-v-sklyarov.htm) trafficing, but the only thing 
he did while in the US is give his presentation on ebook security at 
DefCon.
He did not distribute CD´s personally while in the US(That i´ve been 
able to find out), nor did he sell/distribute the program over the 
Internet. Elcomsoft/RegNow did that.

c) Did Dmitry auctally code anything?
According to Vladimir Katalov, there were three different 
programmers that worked on AEBPR while Dmitry only worked on 
algorithms.
The screenshot the FBI got had the following on the bottom of the 
window "AEBPR 1.0 (c) 2001 Dmitry Sklyarov, Elcomsoft Co. Ltd."
The license of AEBPR states "- All copyrights to AEBPR are 
exclusively owned by ElcomSoft Co.Ltd."
In version 2.2, the copyright changed to "EBPR 2.2 (c) ElcomSoft 
Co. Ltd."

http://www.wizaerdsrealm.com/forum/index.php?pAction=ReadMessa
ge&nMsgNumber=1925
http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=1546

d) Where is Dmitry now and what is his status?
He was arrested by the FBI on Monday ~10am as he left Defcon to 
go home.
As of the 22nd, 10pm NZT there has been no news on his 
whereabouts in the federal prison system. He could still be in Las 
Vegas or on his way to California. He has had access to a Russian 
Councilate (URL)


e) What does AEBPR do?
It strips out all DRM´s and outputs the ebook in plain PDF form.
In order to do this, you have to have legally purchased the ebook 
and not copied it from someone else.

f) How is Adobe involved?
AEBPR strips out all DRM from ebooks using Adobe´s eBook 
reader, which it claims is secure.
Adobe sells the ebook software to publishers, who then decide 
which encryption/DRM plugin´s to use. (Yes, one of which is ROT-
13)
On the 25th of June, Adobe sent a notification to elcomsoft saying 
AEBPR was illegal and asked them to remove it from their site. 
http://www.elcomsoft.com/AEBPR/adobe1.txt
On the 26th they contacted Verio (Elcomsoft´s ISP) telling them to 
shut down the website because it "offers downloads to their 
copyrighted software published by Adobe Systems." 
http://www.elcomsoft.com/AEBPR/adobe2.txt
Daniel J. O´Connell (The FBI Agent) met with representatives of 
Adobe in San Jose including 
Kevin Nathanson, Group Products Manager.
Nathanson and Daryl Spano, a technical Investigator, 
Investigations/Anti-Piracy show Mr O´Connel the Elcomsoft website 
as well as telling how they downloaded and purchased a key for 
AEBPR then decrypted an ebook. They also told the agent that 
Dmitry was going to be present at Defcon.
http://cryptome.org/usa-v-sklyarov.htm
On the 27th, Verio blocked Elcomsofts website.
On the 28th, Adobe sent a compliant to Regnow (The site elcomsoft 
was selling AEBPR through), for "unauthorized distribution of 
software". At this point Elcomsoft stopped selling AEBPR.
http://www.elcomsoft.com/AEBPR/adobe3.txt
On the 4th of July, Elcomsoft released a new version of AEBPR 
(2.2) that works with Adobe 
eBook Reader 2.2. This is in response to Adobe changing the way 
the reader/encryption worked.
According to Elcomsoft, Adobe had only made minimal changes.
http://www.elcomsoft.com/aebpr.html
On the 5th the FBI agent contacted Tom Diaz at Adobe who told him 
that he beleived that AEBPR circumvents protection afforded by a 
technological measure. 
(See the cryptome link above)

g) Are Elcomsoft going to release source code?
Vladimir has stated that they are thinking about releasing the source 
to AEBPR, possibly under the GPL if Adobe keep harrassing them.
http://www.wizaerdsrealm.com/forum/index.php?pAction=ReadMessa
ge&nMsgNumber=1925

h) http://www.planetebook.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=170 has 
a list of all the stories on this.

i) Protests. There are protests organised for Monday. The mailing 
list has details on 
these.http://www.cryptonomicon.net/modules.php?op=modload&nam
e=FAQ&file=index&myfaq=yes&id_cat=8&categories=Sklyarov+Cont
roversy


k) Someone has turned down a job opportunity at Adobe.

l) Adobe has agreed to talk to the EFF, BUT neither Adobe nor the 
EFF are releasing the letter that Adobe sent to the EFF.

m) Russia does NOT have it´s own DMCA. Dmitry was in Russia 
during the time he worked on AEBPR.
According to various sources (Including Elcomsoft) it´s illegal in 
Russia to sell/otherwise a product where the users cannon´t backup 
data. The list has more on this to.

) Timeline!
2001/06/20: Elcomsoft releases AEBPR 1.0.
2001/06/25: Adobe Anti-Piracy "division" sends Elcomsoft the first 
C&D
2001/06/26: Adobe sends a C&D to Elcomsoft´s ISP, requesting 
they shut the site down.
2001/06/27: Verio complies and shuts the website down, but 
Elcomsoft switch to a different ISP
2001/06/28: Adobe sends a third C&D, this time to RegNow.
	         First article is run by the Wall Street Journal.
2001/07/04: Elcomsoft releases AEBPR 2.2 in response to Adobe 
changing a few things. 
(Minimal Changes)
2001/07/10: Affidavit is filed by the FBI.
2001/07/16: Dmitry is arrested by the FBI as he leaves DefCon and 
made his first appear in a federal court.
2001/07/19: The Russian Councilate gets to see Dmitry.









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