• gpg signature for photography (jpeg)

    From ThierryIT@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 9 09:15:06 2016
    Hello there,

    I am using gpg to encrypt and sign documents and emails.
    I am wondering if it is possible to include in a photography a gpg signature (not separate) ?
    Something similar to a copyright.

    Thx


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  • From Le Forgeron@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 10 23:11:07 2016
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    Le 09/02/2016 08:15, ThierryIT a écrit :
    Hello there,

    I am using gpg to encrypt and sign documents and emails. I am
    wondering if it is possible to include in a photography a gpg
    signature (not separate) ? Something similar to a copyright.

    Thx

    What would you sign ? obviously not the whole file (problem of
    self-reference, hard to perform when the signature is not the very end
    of the file)

    How would that be like a copyright ? a copyright is a legal matter.
    Or did you mean like a copyright tag ? kind of a watermark ?

    You might want to look for watermark and steganography.


    You could sign the picture block, adding the signature in some tag
    inside the data part, but that would not disallow someone to remove
    that tag. The purpose of a signature would be to check the
    non-tampering of the signed part, by itself it does not provides any
    protection about tampering the container and dropping the signature.

    What format is the photography in ? most usual formats allow for
    metadata, some have open-specification and tags, which means that
    conformant readers would jump over unknown sections.

    But the easy way to get ride of any meta-data is to convert to a
    format which do not have any, then back to whatever is suitable. If
    someone can view the picture, it can be transformed to another format
    for the same visual aspect, and any attached string can be removed.

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