FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Robert Mendes da Costa
SecureMedia
(415) 345-7720
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SecureMedia announces IP Broadband Media Security
for MPEG
SecureMedia Develops Security Reference Design to Protect MPEG Streams
on Digital Set Top Boxes
LAS VEGAS, NV - April 23, 2001 - SecureMedia, the leader in IP Broadband
Media Security, today announced it has developed a revolutionary new security
system that protects broadcast-quality MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 media streams
delivered to digital set top boxes over IP networks. Using its patented
EncryptoniteTM Encryption Engine and breakthrough Indexed EncryptionTM
technology, the new security system dramatically increases protection of
MPEG streams for Video-on-Demand applications, while greatly simplifying
key management, reducing bandwidth requirements, and ensuring the
highest-quality
user experience. At the NAB2001 show in Las Vegas this week, SecureMedia
will unveil this system including a new IP broadband security reference
design for digital set top boxes based on Equator Technologies' MAP CA
reference design.
"The IP broadband market requires a new class of security solutions to
meet the high-bandwidth requirements, end-to-end security needs, scalability
and quality consumer experience required for new Internet media services,
such as Video-on-Demand," said Jack Oswald, CEO of SecureMedia. "By applying
our Encryptonite Engine and Indexed Encryption technology to MPEG-2 and
MPEG-4, we're able to provide the level of security and performance service
providers and network operators need to license and distribute top-quality
entertainment."
Encryptonite is the only encryption technology designed specifically for
IP broadband media. SecureMedia's revolutionary Indexed Encryption technology
encrypts each MPEG video frame uniquely with a different key for the highest
security. The system is able to intelligently derive packet decryption
keys in the client decoder without having to transmit hundreds or thousands
of packet keys per stream to the decoder. Without compromising security,
bandwidth requirements for key delivery are greatly minimized, as are the
key processing requirements at both the client and server, which translate
to critical cost savings. The process also contributes to a high-quality
user experience because the Indexed Encryption technology is immune to
packet loss and corruption often encountered in IP networks. In addition,
it supports DVD-style "trick play" for the end user (i.e., fast forward,
seek, rewind).
Encryptonite represents an engineering breakthrough, combining well-respected,
public key cryptographic mathematics with common symmetric encryption
algorithms
to produce a very strong, extremely fast, highly scalable and renewable
encryption system. Encryptonite encrypts only the MPEG data payload, leaving
the control data in the clear so that on-demand, rich media can be safely
stored across distributed networks and can either be streamed or downloaded
to consumers.
SecureMedia has built an impressive list of customers, including
RealNetworks.,
who has integrated Encryptonite technology as a standard component of their
RealSystem iQ. Other customers, including TSBN, Vesta Broadband, DivX
Networks, InvisiMail, and MediBridge, make SecureMedia the leading supplier
of IP broadband media security with more than 1 million users worldwide.
"SecureMedia is completely committed to MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 and we are actively
involved in the ISMA group's effort to standardize implementations of MPEG-4
over IP networks," said Oswald. "Within the ISMA, security is considered
a high priority and will be a requirement with initial MPEG-4 deployments
because the content will be of higher quality and greater value."
About SecureMedia
SecureMedia (<http://www.SecureMedia.com>) is the leading provider of IP
Broadband Media Security. The company's patented media encryption
technologies
enable a complete end-to-end security system that protects broadband media
from the point of origination to the point of consumption. SecureMedia's
customers represent industry leaders such as RealNetworks (NASDAQ: RNWK),
where the company's technology provides the security for RealSystem iQ,
as well as Oak Technology (NASDAQ: OAKT), King Biscuit Entertainment Group,
InvisiMail Ltd. and Communicado/Satlink. SecureMedia is headquartered
in San Francisco, CA, and has offices in Boston, MA and Auckland, NZ.
Investors include Sony, Macrovision, Trans Cosmos, CB (Berkman) Capital
LLP, and Bayview Investors, Ltd., an affiliate of BancBoston Robertson
Stephens.
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trademarks of RealNetworks, Inc.
