Patent ID: 10303857

Abstract:
A method of providing access to content at a first device, the method comprising: receiving an item of content, wherein at least part of the item of content is encrypted, the encrypted at least part of the item of content being decryptable using at least one decryption key; in a first software client: obtaining a transformed version of the at least one decryption key; performing a decryption operation on the encrypted at least part of the item of content based on the at least one decryption key to obtain an intermediate version of the at least part of the item of content, wherein said performing the decryption operation uses a white-box implementation of the decryption operation that forms part of the first software client and that operates using the transformed version of the at least one decryption key; and performing an encryption operation on at least a portion of the intermediate version based on at least one encryption key to obtain re-encrypted content, wherein said performing the encryption operation uses a white-box implementation of the encryption operation that forms part of the first software client; and providing, to a digital rights management client that executes on the first device, (a) a rights object that enables the digital rights management client to obtain one or more second decryption keys corresponding to the at least one encryption key, the one or more second decryption keys enabling the digital rights management client to decrypt the re-encrypted content and (b) the re-encrypted content.