Kernel-Level Security (Secure Audio Path)

Secure Audio Path, a feature of Microsoft Windows® Millennium Edition and Microsoft Windows XP, is a security enhancement to the digital rights management (DRM) model. Secure Audio Path provides an infrastructure for keeping digital music encrypted all the way to the DRM component of the computer kernel.

This section contains the following topics.

Topic	Description
Understanding Secure Audio Path	Describes how Secure Audio Path works.
Features of Secure Audio Path	Lists the features of Secure Audio Path, including levels of security.
Requiring Secure Audio Path	Describes how to set rights to require the use of Secure Audio Path for your protected content.

See Also

• Setting Rights