Cloakware Enables Safe Content Delivery Across Open Source Platforms

Cloakware has launched a new “Open Mobile Alliance”-compliant digital rights management system for the secure delivery of digital content across the Android open source platform.

 

The new system -- OMA DRM 1.0 Client for Google’s (News - Alert) Android Operating System -- has been developed for Android-supported mobile devices. The company said this “solution” is a natural expansion of Cloakware’s proven Windows Mobile offering.

 

Cloakware noted a recent report from Strategy Analytics that said Android (News - Alert) will be the operating system of choice for 12 percent of smartphones by 2012.

 

The research firm advises device manufacturers, application developers and wireless carriers to deploy a robust security approach now to mitigate the unique risks and vulnerabilities associated with open source technology.

 

David Canellos, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Irdeto (News - Alert), explained that this solution helps device manufacturers and their customers to efficiently deliver secure content through an operating system that is fast becoming a new content ecosystem.

 

OMA DRM 1.0 Client for Google’s Android Operating System is helping Irdeto meet the security needs for carriers and content providers and positioning them to fully support a range of Android devices used in the broadcast, cable, gaming and motion picture industries.

 

According to company’s sources, Cloakware’s OMA DRM 1.0 Client for Android features the OMA Content Ingestion Agent and the OMA DRM Engine. The former processes all secure content and licenses similar to Android’s normal file-download process while the latter responds to requests by device applications for access to OMA secure content for rendering, file management or peer-to-peer sharing.

 

The OMA DRM Engine offers other benefits as well. The engine works in conjunction with Android software to check for licenses, evaluate the rights language of the license and decrypt the content for the application.

 

Cloakware has incorporated all mandatory and optional OMA DRM features and a number of features specifically designed for Android mobile devices into the new client. Some of them are support for all three OMA DRM delivery methods, peer-to-peer sharing and licensing of shared content and support for Android DRM application programming interfaces.