Thoughts on Streaming Video Securely

The kind folks at EDN have asked Cardinal Peak to author an occasional blog about streaming video. The first post went live this morning and discusses streaming video securely:

Until recently, the accepted wisdom in the industry was that end users didn’t care about encrypting this type of video, as long as it was a little difficult for a naïve user to access it without permission. With a near-constant stream of news regarding more and more sophisticated network attacks, however, this logic is feeling strained.

I’ve posted — several times over the years about this topic — hopefully someday we’ll start to take encryption of video seriously!