Five flashfabrikanten work on new drm standard

Panasonic, Samsung, SanDisk, Sony and Toshiba have partnered for the development of a new security technology. The drm would, among other content on sd cards and embedded flash memory to protect.

The five companies are working together under the denominator ‘Next Generation Secure Memory Initiative’. The new drm technology that they want to develop must, among other things hd video on flash media such as sd cards and embedded flash memory is stored, to better protect. Also would kopieerbeperkende systems as a HD Digital Copy and Managed Copy, known of some blu-ray titles, using the new drm layer support.

With the Next Generation Secure Memory Initiative appear to be the five companies, a new standard for the industry to want to develop, which makes possible not only to hd content is ‘safe’ to save via flash media, but also via the internet are encrypted to be able to distribute. Previously, the companies want to make use of a unique identifier in the still unnamed drm-system in combination with a public key infrastructure for key management. As suitable platforms to be among other Android phones and tablets, televisions and blu-ray players.

The five participants in the new standard think fast the new drm model in license to be able to provide to other parties: the first licenses would already be in the first or second quarter of 2012 can be issued.