Intel's VA-API Library LibVA 2.11 Released With Support For Protected Content

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's VA-API Library LibVA 2.11 Released With Support For Protected Content

Intel's VA-API library (libVA) is out with a new end-of-quarter release for this open-source Linux video acceleration interface...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-VA-API-LibVA-2.11

[tildearrow]

Stop lying to me. I don't trust it, so don't call it trusted.

[chromer]

Full Description of LibVA Protected Content API :

The Protected content APIs provide a generic mechanism for protected session management with various assets in system such as Trusted Execution Environment(TEE), GPU, Display. The protected session management includes create, destroy, attach/detach, and execute according to contract with TEE, GPU, and Display. The behavior of protected session APIs depend on parameterization/configuration of protected sessions according to usage cases such as TEE Communication Tools, Hardware Digital Rights Management(HWDRM) etc.
The Protected Content APIs play following roles - In TEE Communication Tools, the APIs manifest as TEE client to honor TEE contract; In HWDRM, APIs manifest as TEE/GPU/Display client to honor HWDRM contract.
The Protected Content APIs execute following workloads - In TEE Communication Tools, the APIs provide infrastructure to execute TEE workloads such as TEE capability discovery, versioning, provisioning etc.; In HWDRM, the APIs provide infrastructure to execute HWDRM playback workloads such as license acquisition, HW acceleration e.g. decryption/decoding of protected video/audio contents, protected content display etc.

[M@yeulC]

Stop lying to me. I don't trust it, so don't call it trusted.

I think it's from the perspective of a program running on it. I can see its use-cases, but that won't make me use DRM. Is there a way to disable that support in VA-API?

Anyway, there's still the analog hole. As long as they don't put a TEE inside our brains, it will be difficult to close that one. Insist on Free Software for your brain!

[Guest]

This is only ever going to be used on Chromebooks and other Linux based systems, so don't worry about it.