Cryptography will deal with pirated cartridges
It is not necessary to explain to anybody how much money printer companies make to sell consumables. Especially cartridges. Therefore, large manufacturers, whose consumables cost a lot of money, are seriously concerned about the financial losses they incur due to the saturation of the market with “illegal” cheap cartridges, sales of used and refilled cartridges as new and breaking the protection of printers in order to “feed” them with any ink. The increased attention of these companies to the protection of their products and profits is not surprising. Especially since defending, it seems like, soon there will be something. For example, using CryptoFirewall 's Cryptography Research Inc. cryptographic chip . (CRI), which should significantly complicate the use of non-native and fake cartridges in printers.
CRI has every chance to interest any major manufacturer of printers and consumables for them with its products. There are several reasons for this. Technological and financial. As for finance, then everything is extremely transparent. Losses of the manufacturers of printers are about $ 60 billion a year. Therefore, everything that is capable of somehow turning this money river, flowing through the fingers of brands, at least into a stream (and there is no talk of a complete extermination of piracy), will be in demand. No wonder HP representatives say that "if anything can help us protect our intellectual property, then the company is undoubtedly interested in this."
The second reason is the theoretical perfection of the CRI technology. This company is not new to cryptography and business. The CryptoFirewall chip is successfully used in the field of pay-TV to protect channels from unauthorized viewing. 25 million Americans and do not suspect that even they desire to "unlock" your receiver, they are unlikely to succeed. In addition, a similar CRI protection system will soon be applied to Blu-ray video discs. Adaptation of the same technology and chip to protect printers is now in full swing. And the first CRI deliveries will be able to carry out as early as 2008.
The task of the chip is simple: to allow printers to work only with the "correct" cartridges. CRI does not disclose any technical details on how exactly the defense will do its useful work. Of course, for security reasons. Yes, and competitors are not sleeping, so you can understand this secrecy. But the method of protection is made public and simple as an ax. The fact is that the CryptoFirewall chip (if it does not receive a different name, of course) generates a random code for each cartridge. This, firstly, allows you to implement protection even at the production stage. Well, and secondly, fans of cheap consumables will have to break the protection of each cartridge. CRI understands that any code and any protection can be hacked. But it's one thing to “reflash” a printer, and quite another to do this time after time for each new cartridge. Not too profitable, and a tedious process.
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CRI has every chance to interest any major manufacturer of printers and consumables for them with its products. There are several reasons for this. Technological and financial. As for finance, then everything is extremely transparent. Losses of the manufacturers of printers are about $ 60 billion a year. Therefore, everything that is capable of somehow turning this money river, flowing through the fingers of brands, at least into a stream (and there is no talk of a complete extermination of piracy), will be in demand. No wonder HP representatives say that "if anything can help us protect our intellectual property, then the company is undoubtedly interested in this."
The second reason is the theoretical perfection of the CRI technology. This company is not new to cryptography and business. The CryptoFirewall chip is successfully used in the field of pay-TV to protect channels from unauthorized viewing. 25 million Americans and do not suspect that even they desire to "unlock" your receiver, they are unlikely to succeed. In addition, a similar CRI protection system will soon be applied to Blu-ray video discs. Adaptation of the same technology and chip to protect printers is now in full swing. And the first CRI deliveries will be able to carry out as early as 2008.
The task of the chip is simple: to allow printers to work only with the "correct" cartridges. CRI does not disclose any technical details on how exactly the defense will do its useful work. Of course, for security reasons. Yes, and competitors are not sleeping, so you can understand this secrecy. But the method of protection is made public and simple as an ax. The fact is that the CryptoFirewall chip (if it does not receive a different name, of course) generates a random code for each cartridge. This, firstly, allows you to implement protection even at the production stage. Well, and secondly, fans of cheap consumables will have to break the protection of each cartridge. CRI understands that any code and any protection can be hacked. But it's one thing to “reflash” a printer, and quite another to do this time after time for each new cartridge. Not too profitable, and a tedious process.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/11730/
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