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September 2005 - sifbits

  • SIF Security, Part 2

    In my last post , I discussed how SIF Security is based on two layers, Encryption and Authentication. We examined how the Authentication layer is based on X.509 certificates, which we compared to photo IDs for ease of discussion. The conclusion we came...
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  • SIF Security, Part 1

    The SIF 1.5r1 specification specifies a security model that has two layers: Encryption and Authentication. Encryption is supported by the use of standard HTTPS, which provides up to 128-bit encryption of the transport stream, very similar to the encryption...
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