News Summary

• A new post on Apple’s Security Research blog details the fascinating tech, architecture, and thinking behind the new Reference Image camera mode.
• Apple explains that while industry standards such as C2PA help address the problem, they remain vulnerable to compromise at points in the editing chain.
• For this reason, Apple developed a fascinatingly creative chain-of-verification system that is private, secure, and, to the company's knowledge, “the only image provenance system that provides quantum-secure defenses”