What is A Dongle/IKS - Free To Air TV Forum, FTA Keys and Downloads, Dish Network, Nagravision 3

#1 (**permalink**) 11th April 2008, 09:41 PM

Q. What is A Dongle?
A. Dongle is a small piece of hardware that connects to a computer.
The usual function of a dongle is to authenticate a piece of software. Without the dongle, the software will run only in a restricted mode,
or not at all.

Dongles are used by some proprietary vendors as a form of copy prevention or digital rights management, because it is much harder to copy a dongle than to copy the software it authenticates.

Despite being hardware, however, dongles are not a
complete solution to the trusted client problem.
Vendors of software-protection dongles
(and dongle-controlled software)
often use terms such as hardware key, hardware token,
or security device instead of dongle, but the term "dongle"
is much more common in day-to-day use.
vendor to engage in vendor lock-in and charge more
than it would otherwise for the product.

Q. Is this Legal?
A. Yes 100% The puropse of this dongle is to receive weather forecasts and many
cool games that will be added soon

Q. What does this do with my Captain FTA Receiver?
A. The dongle connects to the captain receiver and allows the receiver to connect
to the internet to receive updates,weather information,and much more.

Q. What is IKS?
A. IKS uses a key exchange to set up a shared session secret, from which
cryptographic keys are derived. Public key techniques or, alternatively, a
pre-shared key, are used to mutually authenticate the communicating parties.

Q. What does IKS stand for?
A. IKS Is short for Internet Key Sharing

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