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Category: Security

High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection

High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection is a form of digital copy protection to prevent copying of digital audio and video content as it travels across connections. Its main application is on an HDMI Connection.

Key Rotation

Method consisting in changing regularly the secret key used to encrypt the content to improve security.

Multi-Key

Term used when separate encryption key is assigned to each video tracks and audio track per content.  For example, separate content keys may be used for each category of SD, HD, 4K (UHD1), 8K (UHD2) and AUDIO streams for HLS/DASH.

Single Sign-On

Single Sign On is an authentication method that allows a user to log in with a single user ID and password to access one or more software systems that might be independent of each other.

Stream Leakage

The theft of video streams by unauthorized bad actors.

Tokenized URL

URL that has a token to control access to the resource specified by the URL. Token is the signature mechanism for URL to manage access control in this context.

URL Tokenization

The process by which a token is generated and applied to the URL within the HTTP structure.

Watermarking

Watermarking is the technique of embedding data into either the audio or video portions of an asset that can be reliably extracted, even if the asset has been modified. In the event of modification, the watermark is designed to travel along with the asset without itself being modified.

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