Monthly Archives: May 2018
Composite material, evolution in ID’s
Polycarbonate, a very useful material for ID-card manufacturing, is relatively sensitive to influences such as chemical stress and ageing. Similar to other applications, a...
Biometrics versus ID-cards
The world of identity cards evolves around making a safer card for less money. The essence of ID-cards is that on the one hand...
Safe and reliable use of biometrics
The security of our modern information society increasingly depends on the ability to accurately identify people. That way, they can conduct transactions, prove something,...
Key elements in banknote design
Commissions to design a new banknote are typically unclear, hiding many implicit aspects. In 2008 Hans de Heij started a Ph.D. on the subject...
Breeder and supporting documents
Barack Hussein Obama wasn’t even the US Democratic presidential candidate yet when the first allegations about his citizenship began to emerge. The issue was...
Renaissance of intaglio
In this article a link is presented between visual and somatosensory receptive fields in the authentication of a document or banknote containing intaglio printing....
Interoperability of IAS systems
Published information, whether in the form of periodicals, journals or files transferred around the internet needs to be trusted, if it is to be...
Safe and reliable use of biometrics
In this article, which is a continuation of the one that appeared in KJD issue 32, the chairman of The Netherlands Biometrics Forum (NBF)...
A new anti-counterfeiting technology
These days, luminescent materials are widely used as anti-counterfeiting measures in security documents. When exposing a banknote to ultraviolet light the illuminants can be...
Keesing Journal 57
Editorial:
Food for thought
Innovation:
Identities in the blockchain
A working model of self-sovereign identity in the blockchain Identities in the blockchain
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Advanced Generative AI: The Variational Autoencoder
In this series of articles, author Ravi Das examines some of the more advanced topics that support Generative AI. In this first article, he...
LIVE BLOG: Hawaii launches mobile driver’s license/ID card for Apple devices and more news…
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Kenya Releases an Updated Series of Banknotes
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has made some updates to all denominations of the Kenyan banknotes. All denominations are affected, including the 50...
A Sneak Peek at Indonesia’s New-and-Improved Passport
Indonesia plans to celebrate its 80th Independence Day next year by issuing a redesigned passport to its citizens. The Directorate General of the Ministry...
Optimizing Serialization: Part 4
The first three articles in this series reviewed contemporary security document serial number design strategies related to letterpress printing technology, security inks and font...