Dish India leads on using two CAS system to protect set top lifetime

So we guessed right about how Dish India had allowed two separate security firms – Conax and Verimatix – to support its TV services – it used CryptoMedia from Rambus as the only independent security core added to most set top chips today. But a chat this week with Ole Hansvold, now at Rambus’s Cryptography Research, and previously a senior executive at Conax, told us more about why Dish had done this. Hansvold also presented these ideas at IBC a few weeks ago, and he says that it’s a part of a rising trend, as the piracy war moves from the smartcard to attempting to compromise the entire set top CPU, which is beginning to replace it. “If an operator…