Has nFusion cracked the N3 encryption?

by Sammy Satellite. – Staff Writer for n2news

The internet is a-buzz will rumors that the programmers at nFusion have managed to crack the encryption system called “N3”.   Recently one of the large North American sat companies starting using N3 primarily and the other has begun the switch.   Those of you following my other articles on the switchover to N3 know that this is nothing to panic about as there are many Free-To-Air signals you can tune into and the correct bin file allows a wide range of other signals to be accessed.     Here are some interesting things to keep in mind:

It is not likely that anyone who has a solution to the N3 issue will say anything about it for another year or so.    If a solution is presented too early, any provider that has not yet shipped a full N3 implementation will have the option to revise that plan and that would only hurt the FTA hobby.

There is no great demand for a solution to the N3 problem yet so there is no great brainpower fully behind a solution yet.   Certainly smart people are looking at N3 right now, however, the incentive for them to “bust it wide open” is not there until further into the card deployments coming during 2009.   These programmers are busy people, look for them to focus their effort right now in better support for HDTV, better EPGS, more accurate scanning, and better PVR support.

N3 has been under investigation in Europe for some time and there is no working solution across the Atlantic yet.

When N2 was cracked there was a brilliant programmer in Europe that played a key role.   He isn’t actively working on N3, in fact, he was hired by the developers of the N3 system to help protect it against people just like himself.  This one will, no doubt, be tougher to crack that anything before it.   Even with this brilliant programmer, who was paid a rumored six-figure finders fee to help break the N2 code something was still missing.   An unknown satellite company paid and employee for part of the internal N2 key needed to start writing bin files.   Now, these codes are held much closer to the company.

The simplest answer is most often the right answer.   In this case, it would seem that nfusion is using a type of card sharing system takes advantage of a valid working N3 card to handle the decoding.

The bottom line, it doesn’t matter how the did it or what cards they are holding back.  It looks like the folks behind the nfusion want to be out in front of the pack and they are eager to prove their place in the market.   Other companies are not far behind but haven’t released enough details to know what they have in store for us.

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