Patent ID: 7065787

Claim:
A method in combination with a digital rights management architecture wherein a packager packages digital content for a user and a licensor issues a digital license to the user for the content, the user rendering the content only in accordance with the license, the method for the licensor to provision the packager to package the content for the user such that the licensor can issue the license to the user and comprising: receiving a provisioning request from the packager; generating a Secret to be shared with the packager, the shared Secret allowing each to calculate a content key (KD) for the content; generating a random content key (KD-PROV); encrypting the Secret according to (KD-PROV) to form (KD-PROV(Secret)); signing a public key of the packager (PU-PA1) with a private key of the licensor (PR-LI) to certify same ((PU-PA1) S (PR-LI)), the packager having a corresponding private key (PR-PA1) and the licensor having a corresponding public key (PU-LI); and sending (KD-PROV(Secret)), (PU-PA1) S (PR-LI), and any associated certificate chain to the packager.