USRE41919E1 - Rapid decryption of data by key synchronization and indexing - Google Patents
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- This invention relates generally to satellite broadcast systems and, more particularly, to a conditional access system for encrypting and decrypting data.
- a conditional access system is used to permit access to a transport stream only to subscribers who have paid for it. This is generally done by distributing the transport stream in encrypted form.
- any integrated receiver-decoder (IRD) that is connected to a satellite broadcast network can receive the encrypted transport stream, only the IRDs of those authorized subscribers are able to decrypt the encrypted transport stream.
- the IRD determines whether the encrypted transport stream should be decrypted and, if so, to decrypt it to produce a decrypted transport stream comprising information making up the broadcast program.
- a service provider After a subscriber has purchased a service, a service provider sends messages to the subscriber's IRD with an authorization stream for the purchased services.
- the authorization stream may be sent with the transport stream or may be sent via a separate channel to an IRD.
- Various techniques have been used to encrypt the authorization stream.
- the authorization stream may include a seed as a key for a service of the service provider and an indication of what programs in the service the subscriber is entitled to receive. If the authorization stream indicates that the subscriber is entitled to receive the program of an encrypted transport stream, the IRD decrypts the encrypted transport stream using the received seed.
- conditional access systems may suffer either carrier fades or be switched between carriers bearing the same instantiation of the service provider. It is therefore desirable for the IRDs to recover and pass a correctly decrypted transport stream to downstream processing stages as quickly as possible.
- the magnitude of time delay in the recoveries, on a typical large network (12,000 satellite IRDs) can be extremely long, such as one or two minutes in legacy systems.
- Other implementations of conditional access solve the problem of quick restoration of the IRD's decrypter by either risking that still-scrambled material may inadvertently be passed to the downstream processing stages, or consuming far more bandwidth in the transport stream to send cyphered seeds.
- conditional access system should allow the IRDs to quickly determine, after restoration of the data link following a carrier fade or switch, whether their stored copies of the decryption seeds are still current and correct. Furthermore, it is needed to greatly reduce the likelihood that the carrier fade or switch could prevent the IRD from getting at least one copy of its own messages without the need for consuming large amounts of bandwidth.
- the present invention is a satellite broadcast conditional access system with key synchronization that allows the IRDs to quickly restart the decrypting process after short carrier fades and after carrier switches when they are within the same protected network.
- the invention uses an indexed authorization stream allowing the IRDs to quickly decide, after restoration of the data link following a carrier fade or switch, whether their stored copies of the decrypting seeds are still current and correct.
- the invention also uses multiple transmissions of the cyphered seeds during each distribution period providing the IRD with multiple opportunities to receive the current seed.
- the index numbers on all the authorization streams are assigned in a manner such that the authorization stream may be identified and that the specific time epoch of those cyphered seeds may be determined.
- a conditional access server program initializes, it randomly selects the starting index number from a domain of numbers, and applies this number to each and every authorization stream bearing a cyphered seed. Then, while in operation, it increments that index by a predefined value at each new distribution period, i.e., an odd/even flavor switch according to the preferred embodiment.
- the IRDs may quickly retrieve the index numbers being issued in the authorization stream and compare them to the same for both flavors of the cyphered seeds it keeps in volatile storage. If those numbers match, then the IRD will then immediately decypher those seed(s) and restart decrypting on the transport stream knowing it is using the correct seed. This restart may commence very quickly after the authorization stream is detected, and that the IRD need not wait until its own messages are received and decyphered.
- the distribution of the cyphered seeds is repeatedly sent with considerable delay between the cyphered seed messages. This greatly reduces the likelihood that a carrier switch or a short fade could prevent the IRD from getting at least one copy of its own cyphered seed message during each distribution period.
- FIG. 1 illustrates a systematic diagram of a satellite broadcast conditional access system according to the present invention
- FIG. 2 illustrates a flowchart of operations that are performed at a conditional access server to generate authorization stream sent to cryptographic multiplexers
- FIG. 3 illustrates a diagram of how authorization stream is structured during a flavor distribution period
- FIG. 4 illustrates a flowchart of operations that are performed to decypher authorization stream and encrypt transport stream using an encryption seed at a cryptographic multiplexer
- FIG. 5 illustrates a flowchart of operations that are performed at an IRD to decypher authorization stream and maintain IRD synchronization to the conditional access system in steady state operation
- FIG. 6 illustrates a diagram of conditional access system timing for key synchronization when an authorization stream is distributed and a transport stream is encrypted at the cryptographic multiplexer and decrypted at the IRD;
- FIG. 7 illustrates a flowchart of operations that are performed at the IRD to rapidly decrypt data by key synchronization and indexing after brief or extended loss of transport stream.
- FIG. 1 illustrates a systematic diagram of a satellite broadcast conditional access system 10 according to the present invention.
- the conditional access system 10 provides dynamic scrambling security to an entire MPEG transport stream 12 .
- the conditional access system 10 generally consists of a server 14 and receivers 20 .
- the server 14 is comprised of a conditional access server 16 and cryptographic multiplexers 18 .
- the receivers 20 are generally referred to as integrated receiver-decoders (IRDs) 20 .
- the encryption function 22 in the conditional access server 16 provides an authorization stream 24 bearing cyphered messages which can only be decyphered and read by authorized devices. These messages give the cryptographic multiplexers 18 , at the satellite uplink, and the authorized IRDs 20 , at the downlink sites, a sequence of cyphered encrypting seeds.
- the cryptographic multiplexers 18 extract their own cyphered encryption seeds using their own serial number, and their decrypter 26 decyphers the cyphered encrypting seeds to get an encryption seed. These seeds initialize scrambler 28 , in the cryptographic multiplexers 18 which appears to randomly encrypt the encrypt able portions of the MPEG transport stream 12 .
- the authorization stream 24 and the encrypted transport stream 30 are transmitted through an interposed satellite broadcast network 31 by the multiplexer 32 and received by the input module 34 of the IRDs 20 .
- the host microprocessor 36 of IRDs extract their own cyphered encryption seeds using their own serial number, and their decrypters 38 decypher the cyphered encrypting seeds to get an original encryption seed. Since the encrypting operation is symmetric, the encrypting seed sent to the IRDs 20 allows descrambler 40 to decrypt the transport stream encrypted by the cryptographic multiplexer 18 .
- a conditional access server 16 runs the conditional access system 10 . It can retrieve database information 41 from a conditional access database 42 by a network connection to the conditional access server 16 if on separate machines. This information is used to build and edit a list of authorized IRDs 20 by serial number n 102 under local operator control.
- FIG. 2 illustrates a flowchart of operations that are performed at a conditional access server 16 to generate authorization stream 24 sent to cryptographic multiplexers 18 .
- the conditional access server 16 accesses its encryption function 22 (operation 200 ). This function contains a secret identification number W 112 unique to the particular customer (operation 210 ).
- the secret identification number is only known by each respective customer and is not known to or accessible by any person at the service provider.
- the encryption function 22 then provides the S n 's 114 to the conditional access server 16 .
- conditional access server When the conditional access server's encryption engine is activated, it generates a sequence of random numbers K i 122 and associated index numbers i 124 (operation 220 ). While each K i in the sequence is independently random, the i values preferably begin with a randomly selected number, i.e., the initial index number is randomly generated. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the i index then increments by a given value, preferably one, for each new (K i ,i) pair 122 , 124 that is generated. For each pair 122 , 124 in the sequence, the conditional access server 16 creates a cyphered message for every authorized IRD 20 plus all encrypting cryptographic multiplexers 18 .
- Each cyphered message contains a value C ni 126 , the index i, 124 the destination unit serial number n 102 , and an even/odd flavor indicator 128 .
- the conditional access server 16 sends either an encryption ON or OFF message 130 , addressed to all.
- the aggregate of all these messages (C ni 126 , i 124 , n 102 , an even/odd flavor indicator 128 , an encryption ON or OFF message 130 ) is generally called the authorization stream 24 .
- This stream then feeds the cryptographic multiplexers 18 (operation 230 ).
- the authorization stream 24 is preferably structured as shown in FIG. 3 .
- the time interval over which cyphered messages are used to distribute a (K i ,i) pair 122 , 124 to the universe of IRDs 20 and cryptographic multiplexers 18 is the odd/even flavor distribution period 142 .
- all the cyphered messages 144 intended for the downlink IRDs 20 are sent first as an ordered group.
- the ordered group is a set of cyphered messages (CM 1 , CM 2 , . . . , CM m ) corresponding with the group of IRDs (IRD 1 , IRD 2 , . . . , IRD m ), respectively.
- the cyphered messages will all contain the same index number and even/odd flavor indicator, but will vary according to the IRD n serial numbers (S n1 , S n2 , . . . , Sn nm ).
- the cyphered seed 126 will also vary according to the different serial numbers based on operation 220 .
- that whole set of messages 146 is repeated in the same order.
- there is a delay period 148 where no messages are transmitted.
- cyphered messages 150 addressed to all the cryptographic multiplexers 18 listed in the conditional access database 42 are sent, in order, just once. This is followed preferably, without delay, by some number of encryption ON or OFF commands 130 .
- the conditional access system 10 may be in one of three states. They are (1) encryption off; (2) encryption on and starting up; (3) encryption on static.
- the engine continues to create the (K i ,i) pairs 122 , 124 , but only a single encryption off authorization message is sent at the end of each distribution period.
- the second state the engine begins distribution of the encrypting seeds.
- the conditional access server 16 sends an encryption off message 130 to all devices.
- the conditional access system 10 enters the third state.
- an encryption on message 130 is sent to all devices. Note that there is no similar transition from the encryption on state to the off state. As soon as the user orders encryption to stop, distribution of new seeds ceases immediately and the very next authorization message sent is an encryption off message 130 .
- the list of all cryptographic multiplexers 18 which may do encryption is found in the associated conditional access database 42 .
- the presence or absence of the cryptographic multiplexer 18 from conditional access system's authorized list does not mean the same thing as the presence or absence of an IRD 20 , as shall be seen. If a cryptographic multiplexer 18 is in the conditional access database 42 , then, when the conditional access state is encryption on, the cryptographic multiplexer 18 will always be receiving addressed authorization messages from the conditional access system 10 . However, the cryptographic multiplexer behavior is then affected by the conditional access mode in use while encryption is on.
- the authorized cryptographic multiplexers 18 receive addressed encryption on commands, while the unauthorized cryptographic multiplexers (in the conditional access database but not authorized in conditional access) receive addressed encryption off commands. For all networks logically connected to those unauthorized cryptographic multiplexers 18 , this has the effect of leaving them completely in the clear (unencrypted).
- the cryptographic multiplexer 18 has three functions within the conditional access system 10 : (1) to receive and decypher the next encrypting seed, (2) to encrypt the required program IDs (PIDs) in the MPEG transport stream 12 using that seed, and to (3) inject the authorization stream into a ghost PID of the transport stream for use by the authorized IRDs.
- the cryptographic multiplexer 18 accepts the authorization stream 24 from the conditional access server 16 .
- it accepts an MPEG transport stream 12 , provides the encrypting processing, and then outputs it, preferably for ultimate distribution to a network of downlink IRDs 20 .
- FIG. 4 illustrates a flowchart of operations that are performed to decypher authorization stream 24 and encrypt transport stream 12 using an encryption seed 122 at a cryptographic multiplexer 18 .
- the host processor in a cryptographic multiplexer receiving the stream detects it's own unit serial number n 102 in an authorization stream 24 (operations 400 and 410 ), then that stream is passed to a decrypter 26 .
- This decrypter when it was programmed at the factory, had been given the unit's pre-calculated, encrypted serial number S n 114 .
- the host processor immediately sets the scrambler 28 to begin encrypting using that value if (1) the conditional access server 16 has previously sent an encryption ON command 130 more recently than an encryption OFF command, and (2) the cryptographic multiplexer 18 has been set to accept those commands.
- the encryption seed value used for encrypting is the starting state of a linear feedback shift register (LFSR) generator of the scrambler 28 (operation 430 ), a device which creates a pseudo-random bit sequence. This sequence of bits is XOR'd with several of the low-order bits in nearly every byte of the payload of the eligible MPEG packets 12 , not including the authorization stream-carrying packets.
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- the encryption bit on those packets is then set to indicate to IRD descrambler 40 that those packets are encrypted.
- the even-odd bit is set to show which flavor of seed was used to do that encrypting.
- the cryptographic multiplexer 18 While the cryptographic multiplexer 18 is decyphering new encryption seeds and using them to encrypt the transport stream 12 , it is also injecting the authorization stream 24 into the transport (operation 440 ). This operates as a simple logical pipe from the cryptographic multiplexer host processor to all the IRD host processors 36 .
- the authorization stream 24 is inserted as the payload into MPEG packets. As these packets are built, they are queued within the cryptographic multiplexer 18 .
- Each authorized IRD 20 in the receiving network has three tasks to perform within this conditional access system 10 : (1) extract and decypher its own authorization streams to get new encryption seeds, (2) decrypt the encrypted transport stream packets 30 and pass the new clear packets to the payload processing portion of the IRD 20 , and (3) achieve and maintain synchronization to the timing of the cryptographic multiplexer scrambler 28 , to ensure that decrypting is done with the correct seed.
- FIG. 5 illustrates a flowchart of operations that are performed at an IRD 20 to decypher authorization stream 24 and maintain IRD synchronization to the conditional access system 10 in steady state operation.
- the authorization stream 24 is demultiplexed out by the transport demux chip 44 (operation 500 ).
- This stream 24 is passed to the local host microprocessor 36 and it extracts the secret (C ni ,i) 126 , 124 message addressed to that particular unit by serial number 102 (operation 510 ).
- every IRD's (C ni ,i) message is sent twice (refer to FIG.
- cyphered messages are passed to the decrypter 38 .
- This decrypter 38 is preferably identical to the decrypter 26 installed in cryptographic multiplexers 18 . It proceeds to decypher the new K i seed values 122 in the same manner as the decrypter 26 within the cryptographic multiplexer 18 (operation 520 ). Those new seeds are then loaded to the odd/even flavor register in the descrambler 40 corresponding to that seed's flavor (operation 530 ). When this is done, a flag is set in the descrambler 40 to signal that a new valid seed of a particular odd/even flavor is available.
- the IRD 20 detects authorization streams 24 addressed to itself and routes the enclosed (C ni ,i) pair 126 , 124 to the decrypter 38 . In addition, it maintains a circular buffer in volatile memory where the last messages received of each odd/even flavor are stored. When new messages are received, they overwrite the previous message of the same flavor.
- the purpose of this which shall be discussed in more detail below, is to provide a way for IRDs 20 to recover from brief losses of transport stream input and, of course, loss of the authorization stream as well.
- the IRD 20 accepts an incoming MPEG transport stream 12 , either from a satellite carrier or from a terrestrial interface. It applies a process of decrypting the transport stream which is essentially identical to the encrypting operation.
- the payload of the transport stream packets are XOR'd by the same pseudo-random bit sequence which encrypted them jin the cryptographic multiplexer 18 . This process restores the payloads of those transport stream packets back to the clear or normal state. Those packets are then routed to the downstream processing circuitry 46 within the IRD 20 .
- IRD synchronization to the conditional access system 10 differs depending on the state of the system. Steady state operation of an authorized IRD 20 and the several transient states are discussed in detail below: (1) authorization by conditional access system, (2) de-authorization by conditional access system, (3) brief transport stream loss, and (4) extended transport stream loss.
- authorization streams bearing the cyphered seeds of a particular flavor are distributed to the cryptographic multiplexers 18 and IRDs 20 while those same units are encrypting and decrypting with the previously distributed seed of the opposing odd/even flavor.
- the synchronization is maintained as follows. When a seed of a particular flavor is received, decyphered, and loaded to the IRD 20 , an X_SEED_WRITTEN flag is SET within the IRD 20 (where X designates the seed's odd/even flavor).
- test 550 it looks to see if the X_SEED_WRITTEN flag corresponding to the new flavor is set (test 550 ). If so, it knows it has a valid seed for that new flavor, and it begins decrypting immediately (operation 560 ). If not, it blocks all incoming encrypted transport streams 30 from entering the IRD demux chip 44 and clears the X_SEED_WRITTEN flag (operation 570 ). When the very next flavor change occurs in the incoming encrypted transport packet stream 30 , that same flag clears in anticipation of the distribution of the next seed of that flavor.
- FIG. 6 illustrates a diagram of conditional access system timing for key synchronization when an authorization stream is distributed and a transport stream is encrypted at the cryptographic multiplexer 18 and decrypted at the IRD 20 .
- the new odd seed is written to odd seed register 158 , setting the ODD_SEED_WRITTEN flag.
- the incoming transport stream is still being encrypted with the previous even seed 160 at the cryptographic multiplexer 18 during an even flavor period 162 .
- the transport stream flavor 128 switches from even to odd.
- the odd seed then begins being used to decrypt at the IRD 20 during an odd flavor period 164 .
- the ODD_SEED_WRITTEN flag will be cleared. But the authorization stream distribution period 164 for odd seeds is just beginning, and soon a new odd seed will be received, setting the flag once again.
- new even seed is written to even seed register 166 , setting the EVEN_SEED_WRITTEN flag.
- an IRD 20 When an IRD 20 is unauthorized in the conditional access system 10 , it does not receive the cyphered authorization streams, addressed to itself, bearing its own (C ni ,i) value pair. Without the (C ni ,i) pair 126 , 124 , seeds cannot be decyphered, so the X_SEED_WRITTEN flags remain continuously clear, and the IRD removes all incoming encrypted transport streams and substitutes null streams. When the IRD 20 is first authorized in the conditional access system 10 , authorization streams addressed to it begin to be received.
- the IRD basically performs the following steps: (1) a seed of a particular flavor is later received, decyphered, and loaded to the descrambler 40 , setting that respective X_SEED_WRITTEN flag; (2) the odd/even flavor bit in the incoming encrypted transport stream packets later changes over to that flavor; and (3) the seed is used to decrypt the encrypted transport streams.
- FIG. 7 illustrates a flowchart of operations that are performed at the IRD 20 to rapidly decrypt data by key synchronization and indexing after brief or extended loss of transport stream.
- the IRD host 36 resets the descrambler 40 (operation 710 ). This clears the X_SEED_WRITTEN flags and will block encrypted transport packets from entering the IRD demux chip 44 . But, authorization stream will not be blocked. Later, when the host 36 detects the restored transport stream (operation 720 ), it will begin monitoring the authorization stream channel (if available).
- the first authorization stream 24 detected even if not addressed to itself, will be examined for its i index 124 and its odd/even flavor 128 (operation 730 ).
- the IRD host 36 will then exploit the simple knowledge that if the currently distributed encryption seed has an index of i 0 , then the current encrypting is being done using the seed associated with index i 0 ⁇ 1. If either of the stored authorization streams has an i index value equal to either i 0 or i 0 ⁇ 1 l (test 740 ), then the assumption is made that (1) the new transport stream bears the same authorization stream as before and (2) the IRD 20 already has the stored authorization streams corresponding at least to the current seed being used to encrypt.
- the IRD 20 then progresses through the following sequence: (1) the stored authorization streams whose i index values equal i 0 or i 0 ⁇ 1 are sent by the IRD host 36 , in order of increasing magnitude, to the decrypter 38 ; (2) the decrypter 38 decyphers one or two authorization streams and the K i 122 results are loaded to the respective odd/even flavor encrypting register(s) (operation 750 ); (3) the X_SEED_WRITTEN flags corresponding to whichever flavor seed(s) was/were loaded are set; (4) the next arriving encrypted transport stream is treated as if it was logically an odd/even flavor change and, if the X_SEED_WRITTEN flag for the new incoming encrypting flavor is set; (5) the IRD descrambler 40 commences to decrypt all the incoming encrypted transport streams (operation 760 ). The IRD then functions as described in the steady state operation.
- the IRD host 36 For all losses of transport streams, the X_SEED_WRITTEN flags are cleared, the IRD host 36 resets the descrambler 40 . As just described, when the transport stream is restored, the IRD host 36 examines the first authorization streams received. In the case where the first incoming authorization stream's i index value is not exactly equal to, or is not equal to one more than either of the i index values in the stored authorization streams, then the IRD host 36 assumes that the stored cyphered seeds are unusable. From then on, it behaves as if it had just boot up. The IRD 20 remains unauthorized until the IRD first gets an addressed cyphered seed through authorization stream and, thence until the succeeding transport encrypting flavor switch.
- an extended period would be any outage exceeding half of the difference between flavor distribution period 142 and the total delays 148 , 154 where double-sending of the cyphered seeds is employed (referring to FIG. 3 ). Failing to use double-sending of the seeds could cause an IRD 20 to miss its current seed distribution on even the shortest outages. In this case, the IRD 20 will appear to initially recover after an outage, but revert to unauthorized at the next flavor switch and remain that way through that next flavor distribution period.
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