Secure Architecture for the Digital Rights Management of the M-Content

Abstract: The new trend in mobile applications world is to securely ensure a variety of content for all the customers. Since the providers invest large amounts of money in producing multimedia content such as m-applications, presentations, advertising, music clips and games, there should be considered some sensitive problems regarding the “forward lock ” issue, in particular the content transfer from one mobile device to another. This paper presents models for handling digital rights management problems and a proposal for a practical distributed secure architecture used in a complex model for massive secure distribution of m-contents. Also, the concepts related to m-application, xml signature, keys management, and secure architectures are combined in a practical manner that helps the researchers, designers and developers from IT&C field to consider multifarious approaches of the digital rights management issues. Key-Words: digital rights management, m-application, secure architecture, keys management