Talk:VideoCrypt

VideoCrypt "S"

I found out tonight that the BBC used a line shuffling variation of VideoCrypt named VideoCrypt "S" for their overnight subscription based BBC Select service. I wonder if someone technical minded could add information about this type of VideoCrypt into the article. I have found two references for the encryption system which can be cited in the article.

References

• Smart Card News - February 1993 newsletter (page 30-31)
• BBC Research and Development Report - November 1995

Thank you. --tgheretford (talk) 21:47, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

I've added information on VideoCrypt-S. I used Black Book 5 (European Scrambling Systems 5) to check the information. It was a heavily customised version of VideoCrypt that was, as far as I know, only used by the BBC for its Select service. --Jmccormac 23:17, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much. --tgheretford (talk) 18:51, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

VideoGuard not been beaten

Ive changed the VideoGuard has not been beaten to "apart from Reverse Engineering". Because it has, in a way been beaten. If anyone wants to change it back because i havent explained it enough. Try and correct it so it does make sense.

The reverse engineering comment made it sound like it was beaten and the subscriber smartcard had been reverse engineered. This would have been significant news. At the moment, there does not appear to be any such compromise on Videoguard hence the confusion. Jmccormac (talk) 12:37, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Why no mention of the successful hack that used a pc to replace the card. By connecting the contacts of the sky card to the serial interface of a pc, the pc could provide the keys nnecessary to decode the image. I believe the hash table was released to the Internet. The program called was called season as I remember. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.54.225.207 (talk) 21:35, 4 August 2013 (UTC)