Crypto scanner Attributor will find a digital counterfeit on the Web
Two days ago, the owners of a private American company Attributor Corp. announced the successful completion of the second round of venture financing. Thus, the total amount of investments in this startup has reached $ 10 million, and among the investors there are very substantial funds Selby Venture Partners, Draper Richards, First Round Capital and Amicus Capital.
We cannot estimate the effectiveness of the technology now, but investors probably see a working demo version and receive reports from the best technical specialists. After Attributor received a $ 10 million investment, it can be assumed with a high degree of confidence that their technology really works. Well, then it will be the world's first engine that can automatically scan the Network in search of a digital counterfeit.
As reported, the Attributor unique search engine is able to find any type of counterfeit on the Web, be it text, photographs or video clips. To do this, use the technique of obtaining "digital fingerprints" (digital fingerprints), which allows you to reliably identify the file, even if it is renamed or archived. To obtain a unique “digital fingerprint” (hash code) of a file, cryptography methods are used, namely, hashing .
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The search robot will index all content on the web, and cryptographic algorithms will scan it for authentic files. At first, it is not planned to check file-sharing networks, but only an open web. The system will work automatically, and large corporations, small publishers, and individuals willing to check the Internet for their own content will be able to use its services online.
Currently, closed testing of the system is being carried out in partnership with several publishers. The public opening of the service will take place in early 2007.
The startup Attributor was founded in 2005. Its co-founder and director is Jim Brock, one of the best vice presidents of Yahoo in the past. The position of the Technical Director is taken by Jim Pitkow , the former head of the developer company of the famous News aggregator Moreover, previously worked in the Xerox PARC research laboratory. He is the author of several dozen patents .
We cannot estimate the effectiveness of the technology now, but investors probably see a working demo version and receive reports from the best technical specialists. After Attributor received a $ 10 million investment, it can be assumed with a high degree of confidence that their technology really works. Well, then it will be the world's first engine that can automatically scan the Network in search of a digital counterfeit.
As reported, the Attributor unique search engine is able to find any type of counterfeit on the Web, be it text, photographs or video clips. To do this, use the technique of obtaining "digital fingerprints" (digital fingerprints), which allows you to reliably identify the file, even if it is renamed or archived. To obtain a unique “digital fingerprint” (hash code) of a file, cryptography methods are used, namely, hashing .
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The search robot will index all content on the web, and cryptographic algorithms will scan it for authentic files. At first, it is not planned to check file-sharing networks, but only an open web. The system will work automatically, and large corporations, small publishers, and individuals willing to check the Internet for their own content will be able to use its services online.
Currently, closed testing of the system is being carried out in partnership with several publishers. The public opening of the service will take place in early 2007.
The startup Attributor was founded in 2005. Its co-founder and director is Jim Brock, one of the best vice presidents of Yahoo in the past. The position of the Technical Director is taken by Jim Pitkow , the former head of the developer company of the famous News aggregator Moreover, previously worked in the Xerox PARC research laboratory. He is the author of several dozen patents .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4859/
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