Google releases C++ library for content provenance and authenticity

Google has introduced Credentio, an open source C++ library for C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authority) Content Credentials. Announced August 13 and available at the mediaprovenance repository, Credentio provides an API designed to run locally within developer applications.

This removes the need to send media files to cloud servers for validation, which incurs privacy, latency, bandwidth, and file size limitations. Credentio is designed to start working with C2PA specification versions 2.2 and 2.4.

What Happened

This is the same code that has powered nearly 40 different conformant C2PA-enabled Google products to scale to tens of billions of generated assets, including images, videos, audio files, and documents across many file formats, Google said. Through Credentio, media files do.

• Its small memory footprint makes it ideal for integrating into resource-constrained client applications, server pipelines, or high-performance edge software, according to Google.

• Credentio is tailored specifically for developers seeking to build performant, enterprise-grade C2PA validator products.

• And media contents remain securely within the local environment.

Key Details

By validating media files locally Credentio eliminates external data transmission requirements, minimizes verification latency, and delivers immediate results even in high-throughput workflows.

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