Abstract:
Broadcast encryption and traitor tracing are two active problems in cryptography community. In this talk I will give an overview on how broadcast encryption and traitor tracing can be used for content protection. The focus of the talk will be on tracing traitors for anonymous attack, a way to trace the source of unauthorized copies when the system is broadcasted. Our solution has been adopted by AACS, (the content protection standards for next generation high definition DVDs), the first large-scale deployment of traitor tracing approach, Along the way we have had to solve both practical and theoretical problems that had not been apparent in the literature to date. In this talk I will discuss some of those problems. The talk will also include the recent incidence of AACS "break".