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Cairn app launches on App Store to verify photo authenticity

Cairn, an application designed to verify the authenticity of photographs, has been launched on the App Store. The app cryptographically signs and timestamps each captured image at the moment of capture, creating a scannable certificate of authenticity. This feature aims to address concerns about AI-generated imagery by providing a method to prove the realness of a photograph. AI

IMPACT Provides a tool for verifying image authenticity in an era of AI-generated content.

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Cairn app launches on App Store to verify photo authenticity

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · Steenbergen_apps ·

    🏔️ Cairn is live on the App Store. Proof that a photograph is real: every capture is cryptographically signed and independently timestamped the moment the shutt

    🏔️ Cairn is live on the App Store. Proof that a photograph is real: every capture is cryptographically signed and independently timestamped the moment the shutter fires, then turned into a scannable certificate of authenticity. In an AI-image world, that's how you prove “this is …