Cryprography Research Chosen by SCSA

Cryptography
Research,
Inc.
a division of
Rambus (RMBS),
has been selected by the Secure Content Storage
Association to provide security and expertise to the SCSA efforts.

The SCSA is a consortium of
companies in the entertainment and storage space founded by SanDisk,
Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros. and WD to provide consumers with ways to build digital home libraries. Their
Project Phenix (working title) initiative will give consumers an easy
and fast way to organize, store and move their HD digital movies and
TV shows across multiple devices.

They develop solutions for
consumers to purchase, transfer and view digital content across
multiple electronic devices while complementing and integrating with
online content locker services, such as the UltraViolet ecosystem. Through this project the consortium will give users the ability to
store a copy of these digital movies on local hard drives and flash
memory based solutions which then can be accessed for local playback
across all SCSA App-enabled devices including smartphones, tablets,
TV’s, set-top boxes, computers, game consoles, USB flash drives, and SD cards.

"Consumer
flexibility while protecting content in a transparent manner are the
cornerstones of the solutions the SCSA is developing, and we’re
pleased to welcome Cryptography Research to the SCSA,"
said Darcy Antonellis, president, Warner Bros. Technical Operations.
"Cryptography
Research has an extensive track record of helping address security
challenges in content protection through hardware and software
technologies, and will be a valuable participant in our association."

"Content
has traditionally been stored on passive media, which does not take
advantage of the on-board processing potential of modern hard drives
and flash media devices,"
said Paul Kocher, president and chief scientist of Cryptography
Research. "What
the SCSA is doing is exciting as it will create the first digital
content solution to truly leverage the computing power and rapid
evolution of modern storage technologies."