Secure storage for downloaded content on a subscriber computer is keyed to
a trusted digital rights management operating system, a trusted
application, a trusted user or a combination thereof. A one-way hash
function is applied to a seed supplied by an application to produce a
hashed seed that is used to generate the application storage key. A
one-way hash function is applied to a seed supplied by a user to produce
a first hashed seed that is passed to a keyed hash function, which is
keyed to an identity for the user, to produce a second hashed seed. The
second hashed seed is used to generate the user storage key. An operating
system storage key is generated from an unhashed seed. One of the storage
keys is used to encrypt the downloaded content. An access predicate
attached to the content when it is downloaded is associated with the
storage key to enforce certain limitations on the access of the content.