A home gateway, which enables communication with a plurality of devices, recovers a root-content key from a key server of a service provider for secure delivery of content requested by a client device. The recovered root-content key is utilized to generate a content key for corresponding content scrambling. The home gateway communicates the scrambled content to the client device. The home gateway utilizes the RSA protocol to request the root-content key from the key server. The root-content key is recovered from the received key index. The content key is encrypted utilizing a public key and delivered to the client device. The key server distributes the public key to the gateway through authentication messages. The client device utilizes its own private key to recover the content key by decrypting the encrypted content key. The scrambled content from the home gateway is descrambled using the recovered content key for content consumption.