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Quantum Threats to Digital Rights Management and Content Authentication

Assessing quantum attack risk to DRM systems, content watermarking, and digital signature chains.

Full day (6 hours)
Certificate on completion
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Course Overview

Technical workshop on quantum threats to DRM systems including Widevine, PlayReady, and FairPlay. Covers RSA and ECDSA dependencies in content key hierarchies, HDCP and AACS vulnerabilities, TEE attestation under PQC, W3C EME and DASH-IF security specifications, and PQC migration strategies for the studio-distributor-device trust chain.

Curriculum

Course content is structured into sessions below. Each session is configurable to your organisation's environment, threat model, and objectives.

# Session Topics
1 DRM Cryptographic Architecture Where asymmetric cryptography sits in the content protection chain
2 Licence Server and Content Key Vulnerabilities RSA and ECC in Widevine, PlayReady, and FairPlay
  • Widevine L1/L2/L3 licence delivery: RSA-2048 server certificate authentication, content key wrapping, and device provisioning certificate chains
  • PlayReady device certificates: ECC-256 in the PlayReady Certificate Authority hierarchy and content key protection via AES-128 wrapped by ECC
  • FairPlay Streaming: Apple certificate infrastructure, HDCP enforcement, and content key delivery over TLS with RSA server authentication
Break
3 Transport Encryption and Standards CENC, CBCS, W3C EME, and DASH-IF security
  • Common Encryption (CENC) and CBCS: AES-128 symmetric encryption is quantum-safe, but key distribution depends on RSA/ECC-protected licence channels
  • W3C Encrypted Media Extensions: CDM interface security model and where PQC changes affect the browser-to-licence-server communication path
  • DASH-IF Content Protection specification: manifest-level signalling of encryption schemes and how PQC migration affects MPD content protection descriptors
4 HDCP, AACS, and Hardware Trust Device-level cryptographic dependencies
  • HDCP 2.3 authentication: RSA-based locality check and AKE (Authentication and Key Exchange) vulnerability to quantum factoring
  • AACS2 device key infrastructure: ECDSA in the Media Key Block and device certificate revocation implications under PQC
  • TEE attestation chains: ARM TrustZone and Intel SGX remote attestation certificates relying on ECDSA; PQC impact on device provisioning at manufacturing scale
Break
5 PQC Migration Strategy for DRM Coordinating migration across the trust chain
  • Content key hierarchy transition: ML-KEM (FIPS 203) for key exchange replacing RSA wrapping; ML-DSA (FIPS 204) for certificate signing replacing ECDSA
  • Backward compatibility: hybrid classical+PQC schemes during transition to support deployed device populations that cannot be updated
  • Multi-party coordination: aligning studio (MovieLabs), distributor, platform operator, and device manufacturer migration timelines
6 Watermarking and Content Authentication Non-DRM cryptographic dependencies
  • Forensic watermarking integrity: cryptographic binding of watermark payloads to content and the impact of PQC on watermark verification infrastructure
  • Content authentication (C2PA/CAI): digital provenance manifests using ECDSA signatures and the transition to PQC-signed provenance chains
  • MovieLabs Enhanced Content Protection and Trusted Device requirements: PQC implications for studio security specifications
7 Q&A and Migration Planning

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Training courses are designed and delivered by QSECDEF in collaboration with subject specialists. All instructors have direct experience in quantum technologies and security.

QD

Quantum Security Defence

Course design and delivery

QSECDEF brings expertise in post-quantum cryptography, quantum computing strategy, and defence-grade security assessment. Our membership spans 900+ organisations and 1,500+ professionals working at the intersection of quantum technologies and critical infrastructure security.

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