A Trusted Key Management Scheme for Digital Rights Management ETRI Journal, Volume 27, Number 1,February 2005 Yeonjeong Jeong, Kisiong Yoon, and Jaecheol Ryou
Outline Introduction DRM system Trusted Key Management Scheme Encryption Key Key Distribution Scheme Key Delivery Scheme Conclusion
Introduction Digital rights management adopts a license-based mechanism which separates the keys from encrypted contents. Digital rights management do not provide a way to protect a digital content form the license server.
DRM system
Encryption Key The digital content is encrypted with a symmetric keys. To protect against the illegal use of symmetric keys, the seeds of symmetric keys are encrypted with a public key.
Key Distribution Scheme
Key Delivery Scheme Key delivery when packaging
Key Delivery Scheme Key delivery when content service is provided
Conclusion The proposed scheme protects the key from not only the purchaser but also other principals.