[Cryptography] Photojournalists & filmmakers want cameras to be encrypted

[Peter Gutmann]

Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> writes:

>Photojournalists and filmmakers call on camera makers to include encryption

These are the same vendors who believe that a single private key baked into
publicly-downloadable firmware images that are shared across all cameras is a
good idea, or that HMAC (with a similarly shared key) is a perfectly good
"signature" function?

>Spokespeople for Sony and Canon did not respond to a request for comment at
>the time of writing.

They're probably still waiting for their rush order of Cryptography For
Dummies (Chey Cobb, 2004) to turn up from Amazon before they come up with a
reply.

Peter.