At 10:02 AM 2/18/00 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
>http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20000217S0039
>http://slashdot.org/articles/00/02/18/0853243.shtml
>
>Intel is proposing a technique to encrypt data flowing between
>a PC and its display. The technology is called High-bandwidth
>Digital Copy Protection (HDCP).
>
>It appears to be another approach by which copyright holders
>could distribute movies, music, and other IP to consumers,
>while preventing the user from making a digital copy of the
>material.
Precisely. No set-top-box market without digital content,
no digital content published without "due diligence" to
protect the IP. Lots of set tops to be sold, so Intel smells a market.
>It uses 56 bit keys, and apparently operates in silicon at
>5 Gb/s.
DES.. ECB.. fully piped is ca. 30 Kgates, yawn..
Manufacturers will be assigned vendor keys for the
>system, as in the DVD CSS system. I can't tell whether the
>system will have an open, peer-reviewed specification for
>the crypto (though I somehow doubt it).
That takes time. Only N days til xmas..
I wonder if they plan to make a Linux driver, or whether
it will get made for them... :-)
