Secure digital photography system

A digital photography subsystem comprising:

• a decryption module to accept image data and metadata from a digital camera, the metadata including a digital signature of the image data, and to verify the digital signature of the image data to determine authenticity of an image represented by the image data;
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• a viewer module to display the image data when the decryption module indicates the image data is authentic.

A secure digital photography system comprising:

• a digital camera including a memory to store image data of a captured image representing a scene in the physical world, and an encryption module configured to digitally sign the image data prior to storage using a private key of an asymmetric key pair and to obtain metadata associated with the image data, the metadata including the digital signature of the image data;
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• a digital photography subsystem including a decryption module to accept image data and metadata from the digital camera and to verify the digital signature of the image data to determine authenticity of the captured image represented by the image data using a public key of the asymmetric key pair, and a viewer module to display the image data when the decryption module indicates the image data is authentic.