Certicom sees lift from entertainment industry

Dave Howe DaveHowe at gmx.co.uk
Thu Oct 14 13:25:24 PDT 2004


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





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