Oliver Endriss writes: > > These are two different things. Remember that some receivers only come with > > a smart card slot, i.e. they have a "builtin CAM". In those, the firmware > > implements the algorithm which generates the key pairs (64 bits = 8 bytes), > > with which the MPEG-2 transport stream is decrypted using CSA. The firmware > > could then write this key pair to the corresponding AV7110 registers and > > have it decrypt the transport stream _without_ any CAM! > > I see. That's why they called the av7110 'Integrated Set-top Box Decoder'. > It was designed for stand-alone set-top boxes... > > > But when you have a CAM, it will implement the CSA. > > Great. So there are no license/patent issues which might prevent writing > an open-source driver. I wonder why nobody has done this before. > The hardware has been available for some time.
I thought about supporting the Nova CI a year ago, even disassembled the CI interface routines at the time, but then thought: why bother supporting TT if they make it so hard for Linux programmers? KNC released the specs (no begging and/or disassembling necessary ...) but the code we wrote is currently bound to a commercial project. It works since almost a year (at least with the modules without hardware problems). Ralph -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
