Image encryption technique could keep photos safe on popular cloud photo services

guest · Jul 23, 2021

Image encryption technique could keep photos safe on popular cloud photo services
July 21, 2021
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/07/21/image-encryption-technique/

The past decade has witnessed scandal after scandal over private images maliciously or accidentally made public. A study from computer scientists at Columbia Engineering reveals what may be the first way to encrypt personal images on popular cloud photo services, such as those from Google, Apple, Flickr and others, all without requiring any changes to – or trust in – those services.

"There have even been bugs that reveal random users' data to other users, which actually happened with a bug in Google Photos that revealed users' private videos to other entirely random users."
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Now Columbia Engineering researchers have created a way for mobile users to enjoy popular cloud photo services while protecting their photos. The system, dubbed Easy Secure Photos (ESP), encrypts photos uploaded to cloud services so that attackers — or the cloud services themselves — cannot decipher them. At the same time, users can visually browse and display these images as if they weren't encrypted. They presented their study, "Encrypted Cloud Photo Storage Using Google Photos ," at MobiSys 2021, the 19th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, on June 30, 2021.

"Even if your account is hacked, attackers can't get your photos because they are encrypted," said Jason Nieh, professor of computer science and co-director of the Software Systems Laboratory.
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Encrypting Photos On The Cloud To Keep Them Private

A new technique can keep images safe on Google Photos, Flickr, Imgur
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caspian · Jul 31, 2021

Sounds very cool.

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