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Windows Media

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Windows Media is a framework for media creation and distribution for Microsoft Windows. It consists of a software development kit with several application programming interfaces and a number of prebuilt technologies. The following is part of Windows Media:

The media formats have support for digital rights management. An analysis of an earlier version of the DRM scheme in Windows Media Audio revealed that it was using a combination of elliptic curve cryptography key exchange, DES block cipher, a custom block cipher, RC4 stream cipher and the SHA-1 hashing function.

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