[AG-TECH] AG Venue Access Control

[Stuart Levy]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 10:39:22AM -0500, Ivan R. Judson wrote:
> 
> Hey Stuart, 
> 
> Good questions.  What it does is creates an authorization step in venue
> entry. What that means is if you aren't allowed in the venue, you don't get
> to know anything about the contents (including the stream information).
> 
> If using dynamic streams this means you don't get to know the stream
> locations or encryption keys (because they're dynamically allocated). If you
> are using static streams, then the addresses could be known. Eventually
> (when the media tools are reasonable) we'll be adding an encryption rollover
> mechanism that issues new keys at an interval (might be random?), so that
> even if you know the stream locations, you won't know the keys to get at the
> data.
> 
> Does that make sense?

Yes, that sounds great.  Thanks for the explanation, Ivan.

    Stuart