Your camera records video. Soon it can cryptographically sign it.
In 14 weeks, ONVIF published two drafts that answer the question the U.S. Senate is now asking about the video your cameras produce.[1][2] On July 9, 2026, the Profile V Release Candidate dropped: a cloud video standard using WebRTC, OAuth 2.0, and end-to-end encryption — final in ~6 months.[1] On August 26, the Media Signing Add-on arrived: the camera cryptographically signs every frame at point of creation, and a verification tool — open-sourced on GitHub — later confirms whether the video is authentic and traceable to the source device, even after it has been copied or exported.[2]
( Profile V covers H.264/H.265; audio comes later. Profile S — the industry’s baseline since 2011 — ends support on March 31, 2027: no new products will be eligible for Profile S conformance after that date; the last test-tool version allowing registration was June 2026. [3][4] )
The question is no longer whether your camera records in 4K. It’s whether the footage your lawyer presents in court — or that a deepfake could try to substitute — can be proven authentic. 33,000 Profile S-conformant products ship today; none of them sign the video they produce.[3][5] Profile T already mandates digest authentication over username-token; Media Signing adds the cryptographic, per-frame layer.[2][4]
Every RFP I review for tv4agent asks the same things and skips the one that matters: how does your vendor prove the video from your camera is the same one that was captured, not a reconstructed version? Today, the honest answer is “you can’t.” Tomorrow — with Profile V and Media Signing — the open standard already exists; what’s missing is the RFP line that demands it.
P.D. When you tender your next camera system, do you require per-frame cryptographic signing — or just megapixel resolution? If the answer is “just megapixels,” today is a good day to add two lines to your RFP.
📰 Source: ONVIF Blog (Jul 9 + Aug 26, 2026) + ONVIF Press Release Profile S (Oct 9, 2025) + ONVIF Profile S Deprecation Q&A + Security Today (Oct 9, 2025) [1][2][3][4][5].
Sources
[1] ONVIF Blog — Profile V Release Candidate (Jul 9, 2026) — https://www.onvif.org/blog/2026/07/09/unlocking-cloud-potential-onvif-introduces-the-profile-v-release-candidate/ [2] ONVIF Blog — Media Signing Add-on Release Candidate (Aug 26, 2026) — https://www.onvif.org/blog/2026/08/26/as-deepfakes-get-easier-to-make-onvif-introduces-a-standard-for-proving-video-is-real/ [3] ONVIF Press Release — End of Support for Profile S (Oct 9, 2025) — https://www.onvif.org/?p=8621&post_type=pressrelease [4] ONVIF — Profile S Deprecation Q&A — https://www.onvif.org/profiles-2/profile-s/profile-s-deprecation-qna/ [5] Security Today — ONVIF Ends Profile S Support (Oct 9, 2025) — https://securitytoday.com/articles/2025/10/09/onvif-to-end-support-for-profile-s-recommends-profile-t-as-replacement.aspx