I would be perfectly happy "tuning" and storing the fully encrypted datastream under myth. For playback, just send it to the TV with a cable card and let it decrypt it. This would possibly mean I can't share my programs with someone else if they can't decrypt it (definately someone without a cable card or a card on another system); but that is not my goal anyway. I just want to record and playback shows at my house. Fast forward may be a problem if myth doesn't know where to jump to. If the decoder could handle junk (which I assume it can), you can just skip ahead xMB and live with the "resync clutter" I suppose.
... except that the encryption AFAIK includes a time-dependent trigger. Even if you record the encrypted stream, the encryption allows for it not playing back at a later date. I don't remeber where I read about that, but it makes sense (and sucks all at the same time).
WRT hacking a PCI card, the "robustness" part of the rules wouldn't be necessarily be violated if the card takes in encrypted data over the PCI bus, decrypts, and decodes to output analog. You need pretty small logic probes to look inside a chip.... :)
-Cory
************************************************************************* * Cory Papenfuss * * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * *************************************************************************
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