This disclosure provides a method, apparatus, device, and medium for verifying
digital content playback devices. The specific implementation scheme is as follows: In response to determining that the
operating system's kernel layer has started, a driver for managing
digital video interfaces of the
operating system is loaded to call the kernel layer to generate a target node; In response to the
operating system's
application layer starting, first pre-stored data is obtained from the disk of the
digital content playback device through the
application layer, and the first pre-stored data is transmitted to the driver via the target node; wherein, the first pre-stored data is used to obtain at least a portion of the
verification key data corresponding to the
digital content playback device, and the
verification key data is used for digital content protection
verification; Based on the first pre-stored data transmitted to the driver, data is stored in memory space by the driver; In response to receiving a verification request from a digital content source device, the verification key data is determined based on the data stored in memory space to perform digital content protection verification on the digital content playback device.