FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, May 10 , 2001

New Secure Streaming Educational Series Available For Companies and IT Professionals Utilizing Streaming Technology

"Secure Streaming: Empowering Enterprise Communications" provided by Widevine Technologies

Seattle, WA, May 10, 2001 – So your company is adopting streaming technology for corporate communications, sales training, e-learning and other important product development and marketing purposes?

Now, protecting your confidential and proprietary streaming media from being stolen or distributed without your knowledge is your next concern. A new educational series of white papers called "Secure Streaming: Empowering Enterprise Communications," Widevine Technologies, Inc. lays out the crucial aspects of securing streaming media. Widevine Technologies is the leader in communications security and network technology for streaming media.

The "Secure Streaming: Empowering Enterprise Communications" series is now available to help information technology professionals seeking to protect their company from the wide variety of security threats raised by the use of streaming technology.

"Securing streaming media is one of the most important tasks an information technology professional must address as streaming technology is adopted for use in corporate communications, e-learning, sales training and new business model development," said John Beyer, chief executive officer of Widevine Technologies. "Streaming is a great new technology, but it must be deployed correctly to minimize piracy risks. This new educational series helps IT professionals understand the security threats posed by the use of streaming technology, the false security promises being made in the market today, and the importance of using the right type of security solution with proven encryption technology."

The four white papers in the "Secure Streaming: Empowering Enterprise Communications" series are:

• Owning Your Content in a Digital World - This paper discusses the characteristics of secure streaming, identifying the three criteria on which a streaming media security technology should be evaluated: transparency, reasonable deterrence, and strong encryption.
• How To Steal Streaming Media - Client hacking, client spoofing, IP stack hacking, packet sniffing; compromised proxies, firewalls, and routers; screen scraping, analog methods, and man-in-the-middle cryptographic attacks are hacking techniques discussed in this paper.
• The Pre-Encryption Fallacy - This paper identifies two common approaches to streaming security, the security issues of pre-encryption, and the deployment and end-user experience issues inherent to pre-encryption schemes.
• The Widevine Cypher™ Cryptosystem - This paper discusses technical aspects of Widevine Cypher, focusing on four important criteria of any cryptosystem: availability of a public specification, security from known attacks, computational efficiency, and modularity.

Widevine Technologies is the developer of the world's first and only "encryption on the fly"™ communications security technology for streaming media - Widevine Cypher™.

Widevine Cypher is a patent-pending communications security product that enables shared encryption for streaming media on the Internet and private networks. Among its existing and planned capabilities are:

• Complete transparency on both the server and client end, allowing customers to continue using the hardware and software they already own.
• Full compatibility with all current standards-based streaming media technologies, including RealMedia (NASDAQ: RNWK), Windows Media (NASDAQ: MSFT), QuickTime (NASDAQ: AAPL), and MPEG.
• Client-side security and monitoring prevents streams from being captured by network stack hacking, screen-scraping, and other common techniques by shutting down streams automatically when such attacks are detected.
• Modular client shim design allows easy development and instant deployment of new encryption algorithms, enhanced client side security technology, custom back-channel data communication and much more.

About Widevine Technologies, Inc.
A communications security and network technologies company, Widevine Technologies is an emerging leader in the development of Internet infrastructure security products and technologies. The company's products are platform and format independent and provide value-added services and technologies for Internet streaming media and copyright protection. Founded in 1999, Widevine Technologies is based in Seattle, Washington. The core of the company is a world-class team of streaming media and encryption technology developers. For more information about Widevine Technologies, please visit www.widevine.com.

Media Contact:
Eric Moser
Ruder Finn Chicago (for Widevine Technologies)
Tel: +1 312 329 3908
mosere@ruderfinn.com

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