Through its recently launched project for video authentication, Axis Communications is sharing an open-source reference design that will provide the surveillance industry with an open method for video authentication and verification. Axis itself will implement this in its own cameras as signed video.
As visitors will see, Axis has created signed video as its own implementation of the open-source authentication software. This will provide trust and assurance to Axis customers that video has been untampered with since leaving an Axis surveillance camera.
Signed video adds a cryptographic checksum to the video, which is then signed by the Axis device ID. This supplies proof that the video was produced inside a specific Axis camera. Within Axis cameras, signed video uses the Axis Edge Vault hardware component, a secure cryptographic module which can be used for cryptographic operations on securely stored certificates. Axis Edge Vault provides tamper-protected storage, enabling each device to protect its secrets and establishing a foundation for safe implementation of more advanced security features.
Axis Edge Vault protects the unique Axis device ID, a collection of certificates including a digitally signed version of the globally unique serial number of the Axis device. It also securely stores sensitive data and provides for secure execution of applications, in the ITS space and otherwise.
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