At the moment of the diffusion of Pay-TV with multi-channel signals, each
channel is associated to authorization messages (ECM) which allow to
decrypt this channel according to the rights of the subscriber. When
changing channel, a very short time is accepted before one has determined
these new rights in relation with the new channel. The heavy encrypting
algorithms are thus excluded. To avoid this drawback, to decrypt a
channel, a system is proposed using the combination of the authorization
information for a channel (ECM), and thus encrypted by a fast algorithm,
with authorization information (MECM) for a group of channels. These
latter are encrypted by a high security algorithm and are thus slower to
decrypt.