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DCI Sidesteps Problems With NIST

June 2011

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DCN Proves Its Case (For Now)

May 2011

Digital Cinema Network (DCN) of Australia gained major wins in its much socialized lawsuit against Omnilab Media and former DCN director Michael Smith.  Omnilab Media, as previously reported, is a major media conglomerate in Australia, engaging in a wide range of services in content production, post production, and delivery.  DCN was to be a startup [...]

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DCI’s Next Steps with NIST

February 2011

DCI agreed to a proposed solution by the SMPTE Study Group on NIST Revisions and DCI for solving the dual certificate issue.  The method shown last month was under consideration, but the proposal that’s moving forward is simpler with less impact.   Rather than impose a change in the way KDMs are made, the accepted method [...]

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DCI Compliance and its Future with NIST

December 2010

This publication has dealt extensively with the issue of DCI compliance and the issues imposed by changes in the NIST FIPS 140 security requirements.  While NIST updated most of the FIPS 140-2 Annex documents in November, it didn’t provide further guidance on the transition to stricter rules for dual-use of security keys.  Details of NIST-imposed [...]

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DCI and NIST Update

November 2010

DCI released an “Informational Bulletin” this month, outlining its general policy towards changes in NIST standards.   The bulletin is online at http://www.dcimovies.com/FIPS/nov-11-2010-FIPS_NIST_IB.html.
Several important points are made:

DCI is relying on the SMPTE NIST Revisions Study Group to address a specific fix for the dual key use [...]

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DCI and Backwards Compatibility

October 2010

Two announcements were made by DCI this month that indicate it is taking heed of commercial needs.  First, DCI posted a new policy change on its website regarding the compliance process:

Publication of a new version of the DCI Compliance Test Plan (CTP) will take effect in two stages as determined solely [...]

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DCI Proposes a Solution for its NIST Problem

October 2010

The problem posed by NIST is discussed at great length in earlier reports.  (A search on this site for NIST will reveal them.)  As much as DCI-imposed compliance to frequently-changing NIST standards poses a problem, DCI itself has caused angst by remaining silent about what it intends to do about [...]

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Why is DCI Hung Over NIST?

September 2010

In your author’s latest effort to bring awareness and action to the DCI-NIST debacle, and after discussion with fellow leaders in ISDCF, a detailed explanation of the problem was posted to the ISDCF reflector.  For those who do not subscribe to the ISDCF email reflector, the letter can be read on the MKPE website.
One solution [...]

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