Re: Certicom sees lift from entertainment industry

The technology at the core of Certicom's products - elliptic-curve cryptography, or ECC - is well suited to such purposes since it can work faster and requires less computing power and storage than conventional forms of cryptography, he said. Well, best of luck to them. any scheme where they *have* to give you the decryption key before you can use the product is doomed from the start, its just a matter of how long it takes. The satellite/cable companies are fighting hard to stay ahead of the game with their live-to-view

R.A. Hettinga wrote: product - by frequently changing the crypto whenever it is broken; no recorded product can possibly hold out more than a few months after launch.