Entropic announced it is working with NAGRA. Through this engagement, Entropic will embed NAGRA’s latest NAGRA-On-Chip Security (NOCS 3) conditional access and digital rights management technology into its complete line of advanced hybrid broadcast/IP set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions.
The NOCS 3 technology provides a unified and certified hardware root of trust by transferring key security functionality from the device to the SoC, which in turn gives Pay-TV operators the proper level of content protection required to maximize revenues by controlling access to premium content, both to secure revenues from subscribers and to protect content owners’ material from illegal copying and distribution. Additionally, by moving the security functionality to the SoC, the cost and complexity of developing secure STBs is significantly reduced, which enables device manufacturers to bring new STB products to market faster.