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In recent developments we presented TransCrypt Image, which is based on our developed SDK and libraries, and allow you to protect JPEG images with X.509 certificates. You can encrypt an image, you sign an image. Such possibilities allow you to protect your images (from copying or altering) and be sure that only desired people can see it. From operating system point of view those files seem like normal JPEG pictures, which is a major difference from other encryption methods that create special containers and put files there.

We live in open world. We share, we like, we twit, we post, all this construct our personality, and it is becoming very difficult to restrain yourself from showing more personal information. Recent buzz about well-know social networks privacy policies and settings, together with constant flow of leaking personal private pictures (sometimes intentionally, of course) and serious discussions about personal privacy in media leads us to a complicated problem: how to be social in controllable manner?

Is there a future for PKI? Of course. The less forests we have, the more brighter is the future of PKI – this can seem a bad joke, but unfortunately this is sad truth. PKI allows to change paper documents for electronic ones, and thus significantly decrease paper use and save our forests.