Overview of the OMA Secure Content IDentification Mechanism

With the wide availability of digital content and proliferation of Web2.0 applications, supporting secure and efficient identification of digital content becomes a more and more important issue. In early 2010, the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) ratified a new standard known as Secure Content IDentification Mechanism (SCIDM) to facilitate the management of digital content. As the main contributors to the SCIDM standard, the authors provide an overview of this standard as well as a use case in this paper.