Bertrand du Castel 
Timothy M. JurgensenPRESS
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revenue stream can be generated for the provider of
the satellite system. This is where secure cores come into play. All that is
technically required on a subscriber’s reception station is a digital
decryption unit that is supplied with the necessary key for decryption. A
significant business problem can arise, however, with the distribution of this
key. If the key is presented to the subscriber in the clear, then there is
nothing to prevent one subscriber from passing the key on to other subscribers,
but without them having to pay any type of fee for the television service.
However, by locking the key away within a smart card, it was possible to define
a protocol of use for the key that would allow it to be accessed only after the
subscription fee was paid and then only by a specific reception station. Thus,
the smart card success in this case was due to the provision of a secure means
of decryption key distribution. Trust, as we’ve seen, is the necessary ingredient to validate content and even make its processing by the human brain or the computer possible. So, one wonders, “What creates trust?” That is what we are now going to investigate.
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ComputerTheology Intelligent Design of the World Wide Web Bertrand du Castel and Timothy M. Jurgensen Midori Press, Austin Texas 1st Edition 2008 (468 pp) ISBN 0-9801821-1-5 |
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