Cryptography – Key management – Having particular key generator
Patent
1989-12-18
1991-05-07
Gregory, Bernarr E.
Cryptography
Key management
Having particular key generator
380 14, 380 17, 380 20, H04N 716
Patent
active
050143107
ABSTRACT:
A video scrambling system scrambles adjacent sequentially odd and even video information lines of a video frame by simultaneously storing in a memory a pair of such adjacent lines; and forming a pair of scrambled video information lines by retrieving from the memory a segment of one of the stored video information lines followed by a segment of the other stored video information line, and by shifting the phase of one of the retrieved segments of the scrambled video information line in relation to the other retrieved segment of said scrambled video information line by an odd multiple of one-half the phase of the chrominance information cycle. This phase shift causes the phase relationship of all segments with respect to the color reference signal to be the same; and as a result there is no differential hue shift in the descrambled signal. In a complementary descrambling system, the two retrieved segments of each descrambled video information line are retrieved consecutively without an intervening phase shift. Security of the scrambled signal against unauthorized descrambling is enhanced by delaying the provision of an encryption keystream to a control unit that sets the cutpoint between the segments in accordance with said keystream, and further using the keystream to set the amount of said delay.
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Kelkar Krishnanand
Shumate William A.
Walker Gordon K.
Callan Edward W.
General Instrument Corporation
Gregory Bernarr E.
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