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Re:MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally gen... by baby_souffle on Monday August 24, 2026 @01:05PM (#49422779)
> You could prove the photo was real.

No. You'd only ever be able to show that key material belonging to $specific_camera was used to sign/mark the image.

Was the camera manufacturer breached? Did somebody on the factory floor steal some keys during the provisioning step? Or did somebody build their own photo-sensor simulator and plug _that_ in to the camera's motherboard to feed it a "real" image? Before going _that_ far, just point the unmodified camera at a sufficiently high resolution display...

Re:MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally gen... by baby_souffle on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @10:41AM (#49435013)
Well that was fast!

> build their own photo-sensor simulator and plug _that_ in to the camera's motherboard to feed it a "real" image?

Already been done!

https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1102-C2PA-...

TL;DR: Strong cryptography over untrusted data does not make the data more trustworthy.