Werner Koch wrote: >Thanks to the pay-tv's lawyers and the tv card crackers the problems >on selling certain crypto cards exists. The rumour goes that they >blackmail the chip vendors (like Atmel) to stop processing chips which >are too easy to be used by tv card crackers. I call that "security >through lawyers".
Is it very hard to design such a card from scratch, and very expensive to have it produced as custom hardware? I'm sure there are enough chip-producing companies in China who don't give a damn about western lawyers. -- ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics and science fiction site: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/index.html PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
