Cisco Technology, Inc.

John Joseph Groetzinger

Foster Glenn Lipkey

Nikhil Sainath Kale

John Herman Hess, Iii

Aaron Frederick Louks

Techniques are described for embedded device based fingerprint signing and public ledger registering management. A digital fingerprint associated with media content can be identified. An embedded integrated circuit (IC) of the computing device can be utilized to store security data associated with the media content. The security data can include at least one digital certificate. The at least one digital certificate can include a device certificate utilized to generate a cryptographic signature associated with the metadata and the digital fingerprint. A file can be generated and registered with a public ledger. The file can include the digital fingerprint, the metadata, the at least one certificate, and the cryptographic signature.

Embedded device based digital fingerprint signing and public ledger based digital signal registering management

A server communicates over a network with a data inspection device (DID) having access to at least portions of a data file, and assists the DID with matching the data file to known data files represented on the server. A hash tree is constructed for each known data file. To construct each hash tree: the known data file is fragmented into contiguous fragments; spaced fragments separated based on an offset schema are selected from the contiguous fragments; and nodes of the hash tree are generated based on hashes of the spaced fragments, but not the skipped fragments. A hash of a fragment of the data file is received from the DID, and it is compared to the hash trees constructed using the offset schema. Compare results are sent to the data inspection device indicating a match or a mismatch between the received hash and the hash trees.

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John Joseph Groetzinger