[mythtv-users] CableLabs Reaches Deal to Let Devices Run IP Video

[Andrew Close]

On 8/24/07, Dennis Lou <dlou99 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>
> >Dean Collins wrote:
> >> http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6471376.html
> >>
> >> Wont be applicable to MythTV as I doubt they will ?authorize? a PC tuner
> >> card but worth a read anyway.
> >>
> >Doesn't apply. "Content over IP" means it comes in the ethernet port - you don't
> >need a tuner. Still, there's no way they would let the "Digital Transmission
> >Copy Protection" protocol anywhere near the likes of us.
>
>
> DTCP-IP uses signed certificates.  Even if someone coded a MythTV client, it'd be useless because nobody would talk to you if DTLA doesn't sign the cert.  Plus, they use elliptic curve cryptography.  Good luck cracking that.

my next MythBackend will be a quantum computer...