Reputation of encryption specialist NDS is at risk again as Malaysian Measat Broadcast Network Systems owner, Ananda Krishnan, filed a motion to join the lawsuit issued by Canal Plus Technologies. Krishnan's PayTV platform Astro is unlucky enough to use Mediaguard encryption, allegedely broken and populated all over the net by NDS labs in Haifa…
In reply to last month DirecTV sealed lawsuit (NDS refusal to to give DirecTV proprietary key algo to the P4 card) NDS counter sued the American platform for conspiration to infringe NDS patents and breaching license agreements.