Easy Secure Photos (ESP)

[davidedric]

Has anyone come across ESP as a way of encrypting photos on existing cloud services? I've just been reading an article on Scientific American, but I'm reading it throught their app, so I can't share it. I think it sounds interesting, though not yet availabke to the public.
Here's another description, but rather less detailed:
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/ente...-safeguard-esp

There could be significant implications, for example if cloud hosting services were unable to verify image content.

Any thoughts?

[xpatUSA]

Has anyone come across ESP as a way of encrypting photos on existing cloud services? I've just been reading an article on Scientific American, but I'm reading it throught their app, so I can't share it. I think it sounds interesting, though not yet availabke to the public.
Here's another description, but rather less detailed:
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/ente...-safeguard-esp

There could be significant implications, for example if cloud hosting services were unable to verify image content.

Any thoughts?

Hello, Dave,

I can offer a personal thought:

I only use "cloud storage" (my website) for posting images to be viewed on-line by others ... like here.

I keep my images on my HD and view them on my monitor with no internet involvement. I consider anything I send up to my site or elsewhere (e.g. DPR) to be in the public domain and nothing I can do about that. Having said that, out of those images, very few would irritate me if they got stole i.e. got copied and published as someone else's work.

Therefore, I would not be interested in the said encryption interesting though it is.

[davidedric]

Hi Ted,

I don't make general use of cloud storage either, just Adobe Portfolio which is open.

I'm pretty sure that some hosts analyse uploaded images. As an extreme example, Apple's proposal to look for child pornography by matching some kind of hash sum to known images (whether that is likely to work is a different discussion). However, it would have no chance against images treated this way.

[xpatUSA]

Hi Ted,

I don't make general use of cloud storage either, just Adobe Portfolio which is open.

I'm pretty sure that some hosts analyse uploaded images. As an extreme example, Apple's proposal to look for child pornography by matching some kind of hash sum to known images (whether that is likely to work is a different discussion). However, it would have no chance against images treated this way.

Indeed. I am reminded of the judge who famously said something like:

"I can not define porn, but I know it when I see it."

Beat that, Apple ...

[stuck]

[FONT="]Has anyone come across ESP as a way of encrypting photos on existing cloud services?...

No but a quick search finds this page:
https://www.engineering.columbia.edu...g-cloud-photos
The article includes a link to a PDF file of the original paper about EPS, Encrypted Cloud Photo Storage Using Google Photos, MobiSys 2021, the 19th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, on June 30, 2021.

[William W]

. . . I am reminded of the judge who famously said something like . . .

Hi Ted -

It was a US Judge, probably easy to find which one using the interweb, however what I do know is he overruled a previous decision regarding the movie Les Amants (The Lovers).

The movie was a box office hit in France and was nominated for the Golden Lion (highest award Venice Film Festival): film historians note that its notoriety in the USA was more to do about the banning, the court case and the subsequent overturning of the decision, which is when the Judge made that now famous statement.

Crikey, what gems one remembers from those lectures at Film School.

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No Idea about ESP, Dave, but it is an interesting idea and I am researching it now, thank you.

Like Ted though I doubt I will ever use the cloud to store anything, only using it to transplant images here and there.

WW