Feds snub open source for 'smart' radios

It ain't all software: Some of the "secret" approaches in cryptography involve hardware based algorithms that are specifically designed to be extremely hard to emulate in software. The best known example of this is probably the Common Scrambling Algorithm developed by the DVB Project for PayTV systems in Europe. The CSA uses this very approach (secret hardware algo) and has resisted hacking attempts for about 15 years, an is only now being replaced with a new CSA (v3) which combines public (AES) and secret crypto tools.; Posted by: A.Sinic Posted on: 07/09/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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except that... John Le'Brecage | 07/06/07

Actually... BFD | 07/06/07

Cisco / Open Source calsoft | 07/06/07

It ain't all software A.Sinic | 07/09/07

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