[Cryptography] Photojournalists & filmmakers want cameras, to be encrypted

[Ben Laurie]

On 19 December 2016 at 17:06, Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> wrote:
> At 06:04 PM 12/18/2016, Mansour Moufid wrote:
>
>>There's a big difference between what people think they will get with encryption and what they will actually get.
>>
>>They want: "No one can see my pictures without my password."
>>
>>What they'll get is "I see you have encrypted photos here, this way to enhanced interrogation."
>>
>>Same for authentication.
>
> But public key encryption provides another option: encrypt the pix with someone's *public key*; the *private key* is unknown to the photographer.
>
> So far as the photographer is concerned, the pix storage is a black hole, which can only be entered by means of the private key.
>
> Yes, the storage can be destroyed (if it can be found); thus, it would be better to transmit it in real time -- e.g., ACLU's "Mobile Justice" app for recording police activities.
>
> (I don't know if ACLU's "Mobile Justice" app encrypts or not, nor whether it uses PKI if it does encrypt.)

I guess your one comfort in enhanced interrogation will be that
there's no way to make it stop.