| Providing a secure and standard environment for distributing and selling digital content opens up different distribution channels and new business models for the publishing industry. However, in order for the industry to comfortably distribute content electronically, a secure system must be in place to ensure content is protected from illegal distribution.
Adobe works with publishers, distributors, and retailers committed to building standard solutions, including McGraw-Hill, Simon & Schuster, iUniverse, Lightning Source, OverDrive, and Barnes & Noble.com.
The highest level of encryption
The Adobe® Content Server supports leading digital rights management schemes and includes the highest level of encryption technology licensed from the industry leader, RSA Laboratories. There are two levels of encryption: 64 bit and 128 bit. With 64-bit encryption, there are 20 billion possible keys to decipher the coded information, and only one of them works. Someone intercepting the information would have to find the right key — a nearly impossible task. With 128-bit encryption, the number of possible keys is the square of the number of 64-bit keys. It is virtually impossible for an unauthorized party to find the right key, even if that party is equipped with the best computers.
Adobe Acrobat®, the software that creates an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file and eBook read by the Adobe Reader®, has used RSA encryption technology since 1993.
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