The JPEG Committee is “exploring Blockchain” — to put DRM into JPEG

guest · Aug 12, 2018

The JPEG Committee is “exploring Blockchain” — to put DRM into JPEG
August 10, 2018
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchai...is-exploring-blockchain-to-put-drm-into-jpeg/

The Joint Photographic Experts Group is a working group of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). They’re best known for the JPEG standard for image compression, and for various related image standards.

After six months’ collaboration, the group has produced a white paper — “Towards a Standardized Framework for Media Blockchain” — as announced in the press release following the 80th meeting in July.

[...] The second sentence is more problematic. “JPEG Privacy and Security” is described later in the paper:

JPEG Privacy & Security aims at developing a standard for realizing secure image information sharing, capable of ensuring privacy, maintaining data integrity, and protecting intellectual property rights.
That is, “Privacy and Security” is a euphemism for Digital Rights Management (DRM) in JPEG.
Why DRM is a second-rate idea
It’s worth noting here that DRM literally, mathematically, doesn’t work — it’s the trusted client problem. Your whole threat model is to declare your own user the enemy. [...]
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white paper: https://jpeg.org/downloads/blockchain-whitepaper.pdf

mirimir · Aug 12, 2018

I've never liked jpeg.

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