A new way to encrypt photos on the cloud
The Hindu
A new model by researchers at Columbia Engineering can encrypt photos uploaded to cloud services including Google Photos and iCloud without making any change to the services.
Encrypting photos on the cloud is a difficult task as most cloud services are not compatible with existing encrypting techniques. For example, Google Photos compresses uploaded files to reduce their sizes, but in the process, it would corrupt encrypted images. (Subscribe to our Today's Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click to subscribe for free.) Now, a team of researchers at Columbia Engineering have developed a new technique to encrypt photos on popular cloud-based storage services, including Google Photos, Apple and Flickr. Their method requires no change to be made to the services.
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