I already sign my emails. Signing other material wouldn't be too hard. I could export my public key and sign my music in a separate meta field to prove authenticity - or at least that I was the last person to modify the file. That's actually not a bad idea.
As of right now, AES256 is pretty solid, at least from what is known by the interested public. Of course, we don't know everything but there's also no evidence that it is compromised. There have been no public trials that disclosed cracking AES256. It is also considered 'quantum secure'.
I can encrypt emails as well and will do so if the other party wants me to - even though I don't actually have anything illegal in said emails. These are easy things to learn and easy things to do.
This will require a shift in your process. It'll be up to you to sign things and it's definitely up to you to encrypt things at your end of the line. If it becomes a feature people will pay for (be it by dollars or by attention) then it'll turn into a simple button or two. So, there's that...
That said, I think I'm going to start signing my new tracks. Well, maybe... I could sign them and then grab the hash. I could then upload the hash to a server I control (I have my own server for my own files because I got tired of copyright complaints) and folks could check to see if the file matches.
Then again, that's a bit like work and I don't think anyone would bother checking all that. They just wantt o hear the music.
My real point is tack on to your comment that we do have these tools already. We just need to encourage people to use them. They're not even hard things to learn. Much of it could be automated.
TheRealBuddha 1 points 3 days ago
I already sign my emails. Signing other material wouldn't be too hard. I could export my public key and sign my music in a separate meta field to prove authenticity - or at least that I was the last person to modify the file. That's actually not a bad idea.
As of right now, AES256 is pretty solid, at least from what is known by the interested public. Of course, we don't know everything but there's also no evidence that it is compromised. There have been no public trials that disclosed cracking AES256. It is also considered 'quantum secure'.
I can encrypt emails as well and will do so if the other party wants me to - even though I don't actually have anything illegal in said emails. These are easy things to learn and easy things to do.
This will require a shift in your process. It'll be up to you to sign things and it's definitely up to you to encrypt things at your end of the line. If it becomes a feature people will pay for (be it by dollars or by attention) then it'll turn into a simple button or two. So, there's that...
That said, I think I'm going to start signing my new tracks. Well, maybe... I could sign them and then grab the hash. I could then upload the hash to a server I control (I have my own server for my own files because I got tired of copyright complaints) and folks could check to see if the file matches.
Then again, that's a bit like work and I don't think anyone would bother checking all that. They just wantt o hear the music.
My real point is tack on to your comment that we do have these tools already. We just need to encourage people to use them. They're not even hard things to learn. Much of it could be automated.