What is BISS?

[McrRed]

As per title really. I've looked across the site and in the Glossary and still don't know what it is.
I can't tell if its an emulator or an actual channel. Anything to do with BIS (france?) or is that something completely different?

[toby69]

Re: What is BISS?

biss= basis interoperable scramling system, what some providers use as test,(using a 16 digit code) before useing other encryption systems

[locan]

Re: What is BISS?

like toby said Its a basic scramble system for satellite look here to get more info about it

__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Interoperable_Scrambling_System

[odysseas1991]

Re: What is BISS?

A type of encryption to encode the channel for a provider. Perhaps the easiest to break and input into a box...

[McrRed]

Re: What is BISS?

Ahhh. Thanks everyone. I feel like a prat asking questions sometimes but I do a lot of reading and sometimes you just can't find an answer (or at least one you can understand!)

So BISS falls outside the more complicated encryption methods and would have a separate linux based solution to decrypt hence the input strings posted on the forum?

[microchick]

Re: What is BISS?

Just to add a little more,
There are manily two types of BISS Encryption used.
BISS 1: these transmissions are protected by a 12 digit hexadecimal key as session key.
BISS E: the decoder stores a secret key which is unknown to the user of the decoder. The user is then sendt a 16-digit hexadecimal code, which is entered as a "session key". This session key is then mathematically combined internally to calculate a BISS-1 key that can decrypt the signal.
sourse: Wikipedia

[cgac99]

Re: What is BISS?

BISS and CW is the same system ?

[pan1300]

Re: What is BISS?

hi cgac99

no, CW (Cryptoworks) is another encryption, see _hxxp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptoworks