Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: advice on descrambler
Message-ID: <1989Jun21.163344.938@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <111377@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 16:33:44 GMT

In article <111377@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> rom@xor.Sun.COM (Achyutram Bhamidipaty) writes:
>... What I would like to do is build a descrambler for my cable system.

How practical this is depends on what scrambling system is in use (yes, there
is more than one -- a lot more than one).  The DES-based encryption scheme
used by the major satellite video companies these days is effectively
impossible for an amateur to break.
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