Complete (overnight?) re-vamp of the MQA website. Lots of interesting information in the various FAQ sections.

It all looks pretty locked down from an encoding and decoding perspective with licensing for both encoding and decoding. Documentation and support are available only to licensees.

Whether or not details will eventually leak, who can say, but there are obviously key reasons to protect the IP. It wasn't completely clear to me whether the *only* way for decoding implementors to decode MQA is to use pre-supplied object code. [Clearly, the security of the decoding has been thought about a lot!]

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I’m a product manufacturer, do I need to buy a specific chip from a specific supplier to decode MQA?

Not necessarily. The engineers at MQA have been porting the technology in-house to a variety of popular platforms, a list of which can be found here. In these cases, the chips you buy will not come with MQA firmware from your supplier. Instead you will receive object code for the MQA technology directly from MQA. Moving forward, you will also be able to buy solutions from licensed implementation suppliers. These will be shipped to you with MQA firmware. When it comes to selecting a specific chip from a supplier, or finding out whether your chosen platform can run MQA, then we suggest you contact us to see whether the technology can run on a given platform. Whilst the chip you have selected may be capable of running the MQA technology, it is also a case of ensuring it will run alongside everything else you are asking the chip to do.
In short, my take on this is that only a very select number of groups will actually know the details of how to decode MQA and, as long as everything goes to plan, the chances of seeing the decoded digital in the raw are zero. It would probably take a deliberate release of both the object code + object code implementation details to hack the system.

So, unlike my previous posts (based on hearing nothing about encryption), it now appears that protection of the decoded digital is of paramount importance.

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