The present disclosure relates to a 5th-Generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system to be provided to support a higher data rate than a 4th-Generation (4G) communication system like Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present invention provides a method for encrypting a multimedia content comprising: encrypting multimedia contents including a plurality of variants and a plurality of samples; and transmitting the encrypted multimedia contents, wherein the plurality of variants correspond to the samples included in the multimedia contents, respectively, and are configured with reference to a predetermined number of samples, and each of the plurality of variants is configured with reference to a combination of different samples.