A method and apparatus for storing and retrieving program material for
subsequent replay is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a conditional
access module, for accepting encrypted access control information and the
program material encrypted according to a first encryption key, the
encrypted access control information including a first encryption key and
temporally-variant control data; the conditional access module having a
first decryptor module, for decrypting the encrypted access control
information to produce the temporally variant control data; a conversion
module for modifying the temporally-variant control data to produce
temporally-invariant control data; a re-encryptor module, for
re-encrypting the decrypted access control information; a second
decryptor module for decrypting the re-encrypted access control
information to produce the first encryption key; a copy protection
encryption module, communicatively coupleable to the conditional access
module and a media storage device, the copy protection encryption module
for further encrypting the encrypted program material according to a
second encryption key and for encrypting the second encryption key
according to a third encryption key to produce a fourth encryption key;
and a copy protection decryption module, communicatively coupleable to
the conditional access module and the media storage device, the copy
protection decryption module for decrypting the encrypted fourth
encryption key to produce the second encryption key using the third
encryption key.