Silicondust is now an ATSC3 Certificate Authority

[nickk]

TVNewsCheck:
https://tvnewscheck.com/tech/article/si ... extgen-tv/

Radio + Television Business Report:
https://rbr.com/silicondust-secures-cer ... -atsc-3-0/

TV Technology:
https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/silic ... -authority

Our Announcement:
https://www.silicondust.com/commercial/atsc3ca/

[nickk]

Added TVNewsCheck

[hdhomerunjoe]

what does it mean functionally ?
ability to stream DRM stations using Connect 4K ?
ability to record and play back DRM stations if broadcast station agrees ?

will there be a license similar to DVR ?

[NedS]

what does it mean functionally ?
ability to stream DRM stations using Connect 4K ?
ability to record and play back DRM stations if broadcast station agrees ?

will there be a license similar to DVR ?

Pretty unrelated to DRM. This is a sort of digital certificate that allows a station to show that their broadcast is "authentic". For whatever reason, ATSC 3.0 requires this, and before us there was only one other certificate authority (who is also the only ATSC 3.0 DRM authority, but again, technically a different issue) that could do this, which was bad for competition and conflicts of interest and pricing, etc.

This is mostly good news for broadcasters.

[Phoenixfury]

The way I understand it, this is a verification process so things like the Max Headroom incident can't happen again. This is a preventative measure so if hackers hijack the broadcasters signal, their signal just won't be receivable because the hacker wouldn't have the certificate the HDHR would need to authenticate the actual broadcaster's signal.

[gtb]

This is mostly good news for broadcasters.

Congratulations to SD.

Having more than one viable solution provider is typically good for the potential clients (while collusion is possible, having alternatives tends to drive the price(s) down).

Being a CA is not intellectually hard, but the details matter (and often turn out to be harder than those who are not a crypto nerd imagine).