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In article <C0B6Fx.74D@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> geoffrey@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (Geoff Thomas) writes:
>
>Anybody know how the VIDEOCRYPT encryption system works?
>It is manufacted by in the UK by Fergusson Ltd. The
>decoder has a smart card which needs to be inserted into
>it for it to decode the video signals (audio is unscrambled).
>
>How does it do the encryption? Is it based on wiggling sync
>pulses? Or maybe on jumbling up video scan lines? Or maybe
>something else?
>
>Anybody know?
>
>Cheers,
>Geoff.

I don't know the specifics, but here's what I did to find out about
the ones we have in our area:

There are usually some patent #'s written on the bottom of the box.
These and a few hours at the patent office produced several hundreds
of pages of pretty much the exact "secrets" I was looking for.


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