DigiCert’s milestone reinforces PKI’s trust foundation, securing consumers, content owners, and TV manufacturers
DigiCert and CI Plus, LLP have reached a significant milestone, issuing over one billion DigiCert CI Plus certificates. These certificates establish common trust standards throughout the television industry ecosystem. CI Plus extends the original Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) standard, providing additional protection for pay-TV content. This allows European pay-TV broadcasters to securely deliver services directly to TV sets, eliminating the need for extra set-top boxes.
“Most people would not have predicted how dramatically the TV landscape would evolve when the CI Plus specification was developed in 2008″
Richard Hall, Vice President of Customer Success at DigiCert.
“Most people would not have predicted how dramatically the TV landscape would evolve when the CI Plus specification was developed in 2008,” said, Richard Hall, Vice President of Customer Success at DigiCert.”
“CI Plus was founded at a time when TVs required an additional set top box to access pay TV services, and the market support over the years has greatly exceeded our expectations,” said Vlaho Kostov, Chairman of CI Plus LLP.” CI Plus LLP is a partnership of TV manufacturers and Common Interface module manufacturers established to enable the delivery of encrypted broadcast television services and content in Europe. CI Plus defines a common set of specifications for content decryption that use PKI as the foundation. The LLP partners define and conduct continuous testing and audits to ensure trust in the more than 620 registered device types—and now one billion plus devices.
