Linaro Ltd.’s Secure Media Solutions for ARM-Based SoCs

摘要

The embedded developer community is the target audience for Linaro Ltd.'s new open-source secure media solution for consumption of premium content on ARM-powered devices. In this solution, with support from Microsoft and the OpenCDM project, Linaro has successfully integrated several security features required by premium content service providers with the Microsoft PlayReady Digital Rights Management (DRM). Linaro's new solution enables application developers, silicon partners, OEMs, operators and content owners to use open-source technology to build feature-rich, secure products for the pay TV market. By bringing together all of the essential secure hardware and software elements into an open-source design, OEMs can reduce their time to market and provide new opportunities for service providers to deliver premium content across more consumer devices built on ARM-based SoCs. Essential security features include the World Wide Web Consortium's Encrypted Media Extensions, which enable premium-content service providers to write their electronic programming guide applications using standard HTML5 one time and run it on myriad devices. Linaro asserts that its new solution is "a key milestone that showcases how Microsoft PlayReady DRM works cross-platform in a standard way".