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Digital Camera Image Verification

Posted by michael on from the signed-sealed-and-delivered dept.

Polo writes "While reading dpreview, I noticed that among several new products, Canon has announced a Digital Image Verification Kit to prove that an image taken by a particular camera has not been modified. It's disturbing to think about the conditions that would allow digital images to be accepted in a courtroom. I guess one defense would be to figure out how to 'verify' a photo of shark attack..."

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  1. Re:won't work by contrasutra · · Score: 5, Informative

    Haven't read the gnupg.org website? From the front page:

    GnuPG's ElGamal signing keys compromised (2003-11-27)
    A severe problem with ElGamal sign+encrypt keys has been found. This leads to a full compromise of the private key.