[linux-dvb] Re: TT-budget+ Smart card reader + PIII 700?

[Giuseppe La Rosa <larosa@euro2001.com>]

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From: "Ralph Metzler" <rjkm@convergence.de>
To: "Giuseppe La Rosa" <larosa@mail.eng.it>
Cc: <linux-dvb@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 1:08 PM
Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: TT-budget+ Smart card reader + PIII 700?


> Giuseppe La Rosa writes:
>  > >  > tried elsewhere in the VES1893, and I've made the mistake that you
>  > >  > explained.
>  > >  > What does it means? That the functionality is present but is not
used
>  > in the
>  > >  > driver implementation?
>  > >
>  > > The functionality would have to be implemented into the firmware.
>  >
>  > And who could do this?Siemens?Texas Instruments?
>  > Do you think that they will do, if asked?
>
>
> TI couldn't do it, because they probably don't have the rest of the
> card specific parts of the ARM code.
> It would have to be Siemens, Technotrend or us.
>
>

I beg your pardon but I insist. :)
Do you think that they will do, or you will do, if asked? :)

>  > >
>  > >  > Do you think that could be activated? What I think is that, if is
>  > present,
>  > >  > should not be difficult to activate and use it. Form the demux
part, it
>  > must
>  > >  > be only written the functions to tell what control words have to
be
>  > used.
>  > >  > The rest is to make some software that implements the CA System
part
>  > that
>  > >  > manage ECM and EMM.
>  > >
>  > > The various CA systems are littered with patents and trade secrets.
>  > > Any product implementing them would have to get the proper licenses.
>  > > I am certainly not going to step into this legal minefield.
>  >
>  > Also for 'Remotely Keyed Encryption Schemes'  of cryptolabs?
>
>
> Hmm, don't all the pay TV services fall into the RKES category?
> And we can see how secure they made the low-bandwidth high security part
> of the scheme ...
>
>
>
> Ralph
>
>
>
>



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