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Keesing Journal 37

Editorial: Security: Who pays? Who cares? Design: The golden harmony of Fibonacci Striking a fine balance in banknote design Geberal interest: Protecting intellectual property Multimodal biometric...

Keesing Journal 38

Innovation: Palm vein authenticaton and its applications High accuracy biometric authentication General interest: Defining ID cards with ISO/IEC 24789 A new durability standard for the...

Keesing Journal 39

General interest: Image production for identity documents Why achieving optimal image quality is not as easy as it seems Cases analysed: Biocryptography Increasing the protection...

Selection of biometric electoral enrolment systems

The issue of electoral integrity is one that plagues election commissions worldwide, from developed democracies such as the United States of America to rising...

New initiative to support document examination

To ensure that both frontline immigration and border control officers and document examiners can carry out their important responsibilities, the need for continuing support...

Secure colour personalisation

Due to the global use of electronic identity documents, conventional paper documents are increasingly being replaced by modern polymer cards. For these cards, polycarbonate...

Optical effect of novel structural colour OVD

Optically variable devices (OVDs) display special visual effects such as colour-shifting and image-shifting representation. OVDs which are composed of microscopic structures are quite different...

Transliteration of Arabic in MRTDs

ICAO specifies that when a name is “in a national language that does not use the Latin alphabet, a transliteration shall also be provided.” Although...

An introduction to the Biometrics Constitution

Although we have been employing the concept of biometrics in relation to identity verification for a very long time, many people still perceive biometrics...

Palm vein authentication systems and its applications

In recent years, biometric authentication technologies have been widely deployed as a means to verify an individual's identity to prevent information leaks or identity...

Are You REAL ID Ready?

This year, changes are coming to ID requirements at travel checkpoints across the USA. The REAL ID Act will change the landscape of identification...

How Gen AI Can Speed Detection, Response to Cyber Threats

In the world of Cybersecurity today, there are many metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that can be used to not only gauge what...

New Global Trade Body Champions Optical Security Technologies

January 15, 2025: A new international trade body has been launched to represent and promote the wide range of authentication, anti-counterfeiting and automation optical...

Preview: Falkland Islands’ New Family of Banknotes

The Government of the Falkland Islands will release a new family of banknotes on August 14, 2025—Falklands Day. The new family of notes represents...

EES and ETIAS: the EU’s New Border Management Systems [UPDATE]

As we have previously reported, the European Union has long been planning to introduce two separate but integrated border management systems. Together, the systems...