Streaming media security using digital rights management

Standards for streaming media technology are available in the areas of security and privacy but integrity and replay protection are still areas of ongoing research. This thesis aims at studying the standards and providing a viable solution for security in streaming media technology with implementation.;Service providers do not want the end users to capture and duplicate streaming media data. Service providers do not want to allow re-distribution of captured data to millions without any control from the source. Licensing issues also dictate the number of times an end user may utilize the data. Encryption is not sufficient as it leaves the system vulnerable to duplication and recording after decryption.;The concepts of digital rights management are applied to streaming media in order to solve integrity and replay problems within reasonable limitations.