Evaluation of MPEG-4 IPMP Extension

• Main Authors: PANG, Hwee Hwa, WU, Yongdong
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
• Subjects: IPMPX ISO standard; IPMPX message syntax; MPEG stream protection; MPEG-4 IPMP extension; authentication message; configuration message; forgery attack; intellectual property management/protection extension; interoperability; network attack; tool delivery message; IMP_Mutual_Authentication; IPMP_SelectiveDecrptionInit; IPMP_ToolES_AU; Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1139; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2138/viewcontent/Evaluation_of_MPEG4_IPMP_Extension__edited_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

MPEG-4 IPMPX (intellectual property management and protection extension) is the latest ISO standard which provides a flexible framework for protecting MPEG streams. The message mechanism of IPMPX enables interoperability among IPMPX-compliant devices no matter which protection methods are embedded. This paper highlights several problems in the message syntax of IPMPX: the tool delivery message IPMP_ToolES_AU is vulnerable to network attack, the authentication message IMP_Mutual_Authentication is incapable of defending against forgery attack, and the configuration message IPMP_SelectiveDecrptionInit is ambiguous and redundant. We propose a number of remedies to those problems, which can be incorporated into a corrigenda to improve the present ISO MPEG-4 IPMP standard.