WebM Stream Format

Encrypted WebM streams [WebM-Encryption] are encrypted at the block level with AES-128 CTR encryption. The container SHALL include appropriate values within the ContentEncryption [Matroska] element.

WebM streams may be partially encrypted, both at the Track level and the block level. In the former case, a subset of Tracks in the stream have a ContentEncryption element. In the latter case, a subset of the blocks within a Track containing a ContentEncryption element are marked as encrypted.

For a stream determined to be in the WebM format [WebM], when a Track [Matroska] is parsed, the presence of a ContentEncKeyID element indicates that blocks in the track may be encrypted.

For the purposes of the Encrypted Block Encountered algorithm, encrypted blocks are those marked encrypted by the Signal Byte [WebM-Encryption].

Initialization Data is always a single key ID, as defined by the "webm" Initialization Data Format [EME-INITDATA-REGISTRY].

Each time a ContentEncKeyID [Matroska] element is encountered in a Track, the Initialization Data Encountered algorithm SHALL be invoked with initDataType = "webm" [EME-INITDATA-REGISTRY] and initData = the value in that element.

As well as sections marked as non-normative, all authoring guidelines, diagrams, examples, and notes in this specification are non-normative. Everything else in this specification is normative.

The key word SHALL in this document is to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.