What's New in Flash Player 11

Chapter 7. Flash Player Security

Security in any environment is always a just concern. As platforms expand and the general technology landscape shifts, new problems will crop up that require attention, and additional mechanisms are put into place in order to harden platform defenses. Flash Player 11 includes a number of new and updated security mechanisms, including a set of new APIs for secure data generation, SSL and TLS secure sockets, along with expanded runtime support for streaming protected video for desktop and mobile.

Protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming and Flash Access Content Protection Support for Mobile

HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) was introduced in Flash Media Server 4 and allows the streaming of live or on-demand media over Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) instead of the Real Time Message Protocol (RTMP) family of streaming protocols. This can be very useful if the port used by RTMP (usually 1935) is blocked by a network. This technology has now been extended to mobile versions of the Flash Player runtime, as it was previously only available on desktop versions of the runtime.

Note

It is important to note that delivering video over RTMP is still the most secure, robust method of streaming available. HLS simply provides content providers with additional options.

Adobe Flash Access is a Digital Rights Management (DRM) system which can be used when deploying content to Flash Player using Flash Media Server (FMS) over RTMP or HTTP. While previous versions of Flash Player have ...