HLS Decryption Key Retrieval
Our HLS streams are hosted by an external vendor and the playlists are encrypted using AES-128. When the HLS player parses the EXT-X-KEY field (example below), and attempts to retrieve the key, we ...
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Yes, you can put extra parameters in the URI field. Also, any parameters passed to the request for the m3u8 itself are inherited by the key acquisition URL (I believe this is not specified in the HLS spec but it is the way the Apple players work, so we duplicated that functionality).
Also note that there's very little security in either of these methods unless you use https rather than http, if a malefactor is sniffing your traffic.
--Mark
Also note that there's very little security in either of these methods unless you use https rather than http, if a malefactor is sniffing your traffic.
--Mark
