New technology provides digital rights protection for streaming content
17 October 2001
Within the growing spectrum of broadband communications, different content and processes require varying levels of security - making it impossible to select a single regime that fits all.
A new solution, called Amino Security Agent overcomes the challenge by varying the level of encryption in real time depending upon the type and
value of content or transaction.
For example, valuable film content may be heavily encrypted, while news, with only transient value,is protected by a lower level of encryption and adverts could be sent in the clear.
The company security framework is aimed at network operators, service providers and system builders that need to integrate security into their hardware devices such as digital set-top boxes, PDAs and mobile phones. In this way, businesses are able to implement tailored security solutions that meet their specific needs and also make the best use of bandwidth available, says the company.
The technology offers a multi-level security architecture
where users are authenticated using highly-secure PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) before moving onto lower strength key generation to protect data passing over the IP network.
"In Digital Rights Management, there is a trade-off between security and
speed" says Martyn Gilbert, CEO of Amino Communications.
"Our approach takes proven technologies such as PKI and combines them with innovative
patent-pending technologies from Amino to minimize risk to content dynamically without compromising performance."
www.aminocom.com

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