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    Comment #43776151

    Well, the DCI system relies on trusted (TPM-ish) hardware. One server vendor has used insecure certificates. So if a AES key for a movie is encrypted / shipped for such insecure ce…

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    Comment #43770379

    Yes, I added some notes/improvements while the discussion was happening here. Changelog: https://github.com/perryflynn/serverless.industries/commits/...

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    Comment #43750296

    No. They use a unique IV for each frame: > Every Frame is using a unique IV (Initialization Vector), which ensures that the AES Block Cipher generates always different cipher texts…

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    Comment #43750284

    One movie can be 200G to 1TB large. The chunked encryption allows it to seek the movie without decrypting from the beginning.

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    Comment #43750277

    The frames are sent encrypted into the projector. The projector has special hardware for decrypt and decode.

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    Comment #43747502

    It also contains watermarks. So theatres which failed to prevent recording will run into serious issues. See https://dcpomatic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2372

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