Method and device for protecting an incoming stream comprising an elementary stream consisting of video packets

Abstract

A method of protecting an incoming stream, the incoming stream including at least one incoming elementary video stream, the incoming elementary video stream including a succession of incoming video packets, the method characterized by the disassembling of the incoming stream for separating a current packet; the encryption of the current packet with a session key, the building of a confidentiality metadata packet including a time stamp field corresponding to a time stamp of the current packet and a confidentiality field containing the session key, the encryption of the confidentiality data packet with an encryption key, and the assembling of an outgoing stream including an outgoing elementary stream grouping together the encrypted current packets and an elementary confidentiality metadata stream including the encrypted confidentiality metadata packets.

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