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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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FIPS Compliance

August 2010

SMPTE 21DC conducts a study group to learn the impacts on SMPTE standards of the changes in NIST FIPS standards.  Luckily for SMPTE, it was recently determined that no impact to its standards will occur for three years.
DCI wishes it were so lucky.  In its quest to carry on with its reliance on NIST, it [...]

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DCI and NIST Review

July 2010

While much has been said in this journal of the DCI-NIST saga, it’s useful to recap.
The DCI specification is the cornerstone of digital cinema. It represents the intent of the six major studios to use common methods for the distribution of content and for maintaining the security of that content. DCI Compliance is mandated in [...]

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DCI and NIST: The Continuing Saga

May 2010

DCI has a serious problem on hand, the most serious it has encountered since the discussion of implementing 6 different security systems took place prior to 2004.  Just as DCI members were uneducated then as to how sophisticated digital security actually works, it remains uneducated today as to the shortcoming of FIPS 140-2.  This was [...]

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DCI and NIST: Why This Relationship Can’t Continue

March 2010

Last month it was pointed out that the storm long brewing over the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) security requirement in the DCI specification was coming to a head.  It has been known for a few years that National Institute of Standards and Technology, known as NIST, planned to obsolete the FIPS 140-2 specification, for [...]

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DCI and NIST: A Boondoggle-in-Waiting

February 2010

The value of the DCI specification is the agreement among studios on distribution packaging and security.  Distribution packaging is homegrown:  the concept was developed in SMPTE before DCI was even formed, with the result that the industry has a lot of control over changes in the packaging format.  But not so for DCI’s security concepts, [...]

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