The White House wants to ‘cryptographically verify’ videos of Joe Biden so viewers don’t mistake them for AI deepfakes::Biden’s AI advisor Ben Buchanan said a method of clearly verifying White House releases is “in the works.”

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    I just mentioned this in another comment tonight; cryptographic verification has existed for years but basically no one has adopted it for anything. Some people still seem to think pasting an image of your handwriting on a document is “signing” a document somehow.

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      9 months ago

      It doesn’t help that in a lot of cases, this is actually accepted by a shit ton of important institutions that should be better, but aren’t.

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          9 months ago

          It’s automated in all mainstream email clients, you don’t even have to think about it if a contact has it set up

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            9 months ago

            if a contact has it set up

            Well, there’s your problem.

            The most commonly-used mail client in the world is the Gmail web client which does not support it. Uploading your PGP key to Gmail and having them store it server-side for use in a webmail client is obviously problematic from a security standpoint. Number 2 I would guess is Outlook, which appears also not to support it. For most people, I don’t think they understand the value of cryptographically signing emails and going through the hassle of generating and publishing their PGP keys, especially since Windows has no built-in easy application for generating and managing such keys.

            There’s also the case that for most people, signing their emails provides absolutely no immediate benefit to them.