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DRM License Handshake & Signed-URL Streaming Security

Interactive 3D model of streaming-service security: DRM license handshakes, time-limited signed CDN segment URLs, and a bot-traffic anomaly detector that quarantines abusive request sources.

Cybersecurity3DModerate60 FPS
exp-streaming-security ↗ Open standalone

This simulator visualizes the two layers that keep a video-streaming platform's content from being stolen or its CDN from being abused: a DRM license handshake that gates decryption behind a short-lived token, and time-limited, cryptographically signed URLs that CDN edge nodes verify before serving any segment. A legitimate client renews its license and pulls segments from a ring of edge nodes while a controllable stream of bot traffic tries to hit those same edges directly; a rolling-rate anomaly detector flags and quarantines any source whose request rate spikes well above the legitimate baseline, mirroring the bot-management heuristics real CDNs use in production.

⚙ Under the hood

Watch a DRM license handshake gate video decryption behind a short-lived token while a ring of CDN edge nodes validates time-limited signed segment URLs, and a rolling-rate anomaly detector quarantines bot traffic trying to hammer the edges directly.

DRMCDN securitysigned URLsbot detectionstreamingrate limiting

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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