Monthly Archives: June 2018
User adoption is the key to success
The success of a digital identity scheme based on an e-ID card is not measured in the number of documents issued or the number...
From Sci-Fi to Wi-Fi
Not until long ago, an unmanned aircraft’s ability to identify people from the air sounded like science fiction. With overwhelming technology advancements in both...
Security by Design: Split Fountain Position
Joel Zlotnick, Jordan Brough and Troy Eberhardt
Initial papers in this series described reverse engineering of genuine document artwork and introduced security design strategies to...
Digital driver’s license
During the last two years, studies have been launched in several US states to explore the technical feasibility of a digital driver’s license (DDL)....
A history of passports and their design
When were the first passports issued and what was their purpose? What were these passports made of and how were they produced? Was there...
The Upid-Model
This article reflects in short the main chapters of Hans de Heij’s dissertation, for which he developed a model for the use-centered design of...
Upgraded Alaska Driver’s License, ID Card Coming This Fall
The Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) recently announced that it will begin issuing upgraded driver’s license and ID cards starting in late Fall...
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...
Advanced Generative AI: General Adversarial Network
We kicked off this new AI-focused series by Cyber expert Ravi Das with an article about the Variational Autoencoder (VAE). In this second article,...
Rwanda’s New 2,000 RWF and 5,000 RWF Banknotes
The National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) has put into circulation redesigned versions of two of its banknote denominations: the 2,000 Rwanda franc (RWF) and...
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...