Dongle and IKS

[grasshopper]

C&P

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 FTA Receiver?
A. The dongle connects to the 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

[TOMW]

Thanks For The Education. I Am A Proud New Owner Of A Cs7000 And Have Never Messed With Any Of This Tech Stuff Before. The Receiver Worked Great Until The Zap..... Now Like Others Im Just Waiting On The Fix And Will Be Driving My Fta Friend Nutz Til I Figure Out How To Fix It.
Again Thanks

Tomw

[toe]

hey boys and girls a have cs 6100 private can someone answer a ? i have, do i need anything special beside a wireless router to run my 6100 cs on iks??? thank you in advance...

[278greg]

thx for HUB and IKS explanation!!! basic knowledge for us, newers, helps to operate new boxes... thx again, greg