References with information relating to the VideoCrypt pay-TV system -------------------------------------------------------------------- Markus Kuhn -- 1995-12-01 A book (known as the 'Black Book 4') with some of information about VideoCrypt and other pay-TV systems is available from: Swift Television Publications, 17 Pittsfield, Crickdale, Swindon, Wilts, UK. Tel +44 793 750620, Fax +44 793 752399: "European Scrambling Systems 4" by John McCormac (32pounds + postage) ISBN 1-873556-03-9. Waterford University Press, Ireland, voice/fax: +353-51-73640. John McCormac , the author of the above book also operates a bulletin board system, but you have to pay for access: phone: +353 5150143 Reference about the Fiat-Shamir identification/signature system used in the protocol: Amos Fiat and Adi Shamir, "How to prove yourself: Practical solutions to identification and signature problems", in Advances in Cryptology -- CRYPTO '86, A.M. Odlyzko (editor), Springer-Verlag, 1987 The following Internet servers provide collected information about VideoCrypt: - ftp protocol: ftp.informatik.uni-erlangen.de, login: anonymous, pub/multimedia/tv-crypt/, contact: mskuhn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de - ftp protocol: utelscin.el.utwente.nl, login: anonymous, upload/vcrypt/. - ftp protocol: harley.pcl.ox.ac.uk, login: anonymous, pub/crypt/. - ftp protocol: helvetica-gw.chnet.ch, login: anonymous, /vcrypt/. - FSP protocol (NOT ftp!): 129.241.201.10, port 1994, contact: geirh@idt.unit.no - WorldWideWeb: http://www.hackwatch.com/~kooltek This is John McCormac's page. - http://www.paranoia.com/~defiant/ The European Satellite Hack Page -- various information and software - http://www.gpl.net/paulmax/ Sells ISO 7816 adapters for the PC serial port. His latest revisions look quite good. - http://www.uni-muenster.de/WiWi/home/teschne/icard_e.htm The iCard is an emulator card featuring a 80C32 processor, for which contruction plans and software are freely available. - http://utelscin.el.utwente.nl/vcrypt/ - http://apollo.wu-wien.ac.at:80/usr/h91/h9151382/sat/ Some Macintosh Software - http://www.iol.ie/~ctx/sat.html Commercial pirates - http://ireland.iol.ie/~megatek/ Commercial pirates The following BBS contains also some interesting related files: ALTMARK-BBS, +49 3935 213550 USENET discussions about technical details of Videocrypt take place in alt.satellite.tv.crypt. A close mailing-list tv-crypt exists for more technical and advanced topics of pay-TV security. Subscription to tv-crypt is only by invitation in order to keep the technical level of discussion high. Some publications about Videocrypt are: 1) Jonathan Hashkes and Michael Cohen, "Managing Smart Cards for Pay Television, The VideoCrypt Approach", News Datacom, Jerusalem, Israel. Seminar on Conditional Access for Audiovisual Services, Rennes, France, 12-14 June 1990 (ACSA `90). 2) Michel Leduc, "Systeme de Television a Peage a Controle d'Acces Pleinement Detachable. Un Example d'Implementation: VideoCrypt", Thomson Lerea, Illkirch, France. Seminar on Conditional Access for Audiovisual Services, Rennes, France, 12-14 June 1990 (ACSA `90). 3) Patrice Peyret, Gilles Lisimaque, T.Y. Chua, " Smart Cards Provide Very High Security and Flexibility in Subscribers Management", Gemplus Card International Corp., Rockville, USA. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 744-752, August 1990. 4) G. Morgan, "Smart Cards for Subscription Television: VideoCrypt - a Secure Solution", News Datacom, London, UK. Smart Card `91 International Exhibition, London, UK, 12-14 Feb. 1991 (Peterborough, UK: Agestream Ltd. 1991), 8pp. 5) European Patent EP 0 428 252 A2: A system for controlling access to broadcast transmissions. 6) International Standard ISO 7816: Identification cards -- Integrated circuit cards with contacts, Geneva, 1988. This list was compiled by Markus Kuhn, further contributions are very welcome! -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Science student -- University of Erlangen, Internet Mail: - Germany WWW Home: