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Case 02/06. X-ray ↔ hash

Рентген ↔ хеш

Art

Artist
A conservation laboratory
Work
X-ray, infrared imaging, pigment analysis, provenance

A museum checks a painting four ways: X-ray, infrared, pigment analysis and provenance, the history of owners.

Code

file verification

Each method has a digital twin: a hash, a signature, a certificate, metadata.

Action

Download software only from the official site.

Скачивайте программы только с официального сайта.

The label in the room

The same hash is printed at the foot of the label. If they match, nobody changed the text.

A museum checks a painting with X-ray, infrared, pigments and provenance. A file is checked with a hash, a signature, a certificate and metadata. Download software only from the official site.

Музей проверяет картину рентгеном, инфракрасной съёмкой, анализом пигментов и историей владельцев. Файл проверяют хешем, подписью, сертификатом и метаданными. Скачивайте программы только с официального сайта.

SHA-256 of the Russian label text d829f74bb2d01772658ec6b8113753e7c43ddb3367c7768616249f88959480f1

In the room

Infographic table “method ↔ method” and the station “Original or fake?”

Made by: [ИМЯ КУРАТОРА ЗАЛА 02]

Rights

Our own object

Our own

Sources

  1. howtomakeafake.arts.psu.edu