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ElcomSoft Discovers Vulnerability in Canon’s Original Data Security System

Zoltan Arva-Toth | General | December 3, 2010 | 0 Comments
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Accroding to net-security.org, ElcomSoft has discovered vulnerability in Canon’s Original Data Security System. The system, which is aimed at guaranteeing authenticity of photos captured with supported Canon cameras, uses secret keys to calculate authentication data. Researchers from ElcomSoft are now claiming they have been able to extract these secret keys and use them “for adding authenticity signatures to a set of manipulated digital images”, Net Security reports. ElcomSoft has alerted Canon to the problem.

Source: Net Security



 

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