"keyids" Initialization Data Format

Abstract

This specification defines the "keyids" initialization data format for use with the Encrypted Media Extensions [ENCRYPTED-MEDIA].

Note

It defines a stream format-independent format for specifying a list of key ID(s). This type can be used by applications to directly provide information necessary to generate a license request without using media data or constructing container-specific formats.

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The format is a JSON object, encoded in UTF-8 as specified in the Encoding specification [encoding], containing the following member:

"kids": An array of key ID(s). Each element of the array is the base64url encoding of the octet sequence containing the key ID value.

Note

See Using base64url.

Note

Applications may encode the JSON string using the TextEncoder interface [encoding].

This section is non-normative.

The following example will generate a license request for two key ID(s). (Line breaks are for readability only.)

Example 1

{
  "kids":
    [
     "LwVHf8JLtPrv2GUXFW2v_A",
     "0DdtU9od-Bh5L3xbv0Xf_A"
    ]
}

[encoding]: Encoding Standard. Anne van Kesteren. WHATWG. Living Standard. URL: https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/

[eme-initdata-cenc]: "cenc" Initialization Data Format. David Dorwin; Adrian Bateman; Mark Watson; Jerry Smith. W3C. 15 September 2016. W3C Working Group Note. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/eme-initdata-cenc/
[ENCRYPTED-MEDIA]: Encrypted Media Extensions. David Dorwin; Jerry Smith; Mark Watson; Adrian Bateman. W3C. 18 September 2017. W3C Recommendation. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/encrypted-media/

"keyids" Initialization Data Format

Abstract

Status of This Document

1. Format

2. Example

3. Conformance

A. References

A.1 Normative references

A.2 Informative references