Keesing Journal 53

Editorial:

• • • The security rat race
      

Practical experience:

• • • Banknote wear in Canada
      Comparing paper and polymer substrates for a whole series transition

General interest:

• • • What if counterfeit IDs could talk?
      Chemical profiling of identity documents

Recently launched:

• • • The Seafarers’ Identity Document
      Moving to an e-SID compatible with ICAO Doc 9303

Cases analysed:

• • • Face comparison & magnification distortion
      Can magnification distortion affect the accuracy of automatic facial recognition?

Design:

• • • Interrupting traditional counterfeiting workflow
      Part 3: Security design and ink opacity

Column:

• • • Our Connected World

General interest:

• • • Digital printing
      From inkjet counterfeits to genuine production

Design:

• • • The Lupo specimen banknote project 
      An international collaboration to develop a specimen banknote

General interest:

• • • Designing security
      Advantages of the use of polymer as a substrate