Last November, ElcomSoft Co. Ltd., a Russian company specializing in computer security, published information documenting what it claimed was a flaw in Canon's Original Data Security system, and just five months later, the company now claims to have discovered a similar exploit in Nikon's competing Image Authentication system. As with Canon, ElcomSoft states that it has contacted Nikon to report the issue, and received no response, and as in the earlier case, the company has published a number of clearly retouched images that it says will pass authentication by the software as being unretouched. We must note that we have not independently verified ElcomSoft's claims, as we don't currently have either company's solution...(read more)
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