Natural Randomness as a Fingerprint

 

• Ingenia Technology Limited is an emerging international company in the authentication and verification of papers, plastics and metals, as used in packaging, documents and credit cards.

 

• Most traditional methods for establishing the authenticity of documents and high value products rely on some manufacturing process which is difficult to reproduce. Examples of this include watermarks, holograms, bar codes and RFID. However whilst difficult to reproduce, it is by no means impossible to do so.

 

• The Ingenia approach is different. Using new, proprietary, and patented technology, the Laser Surface Authentication system (LSA TM), Ingenia Technology is able to rapidly analyse the surface of any item and read a unique digital serial code for the item. This code, which has been described as being like a fingerprint or DNA sequence for the item, is unique for every document, card and carton and can be used to uniquely and unambiguously identify the item.

 

• The serial code is naturally-occurring and therefore has the following benefits for secure packaging:

o Can be applied retrospectively to existing packaging, documents, labels and credit cards

o No modification to manufacturing process required

o Low per-item cost: no tags to pay for or to become detached

o Low cost scanning hardware

o Extremely high uniqueness: the probability of two naturally-occurring codes matching can be as low as 10-150

o No known method to fraudulently copy a code

o Covert

o Robust against wear and tear and intentional damage

Mark McGlade is the Director of Business Development with Ingenia Technology, an emerging international company in the authentication and verification of papers, plastics and metals, as used in packaging, documents and credit cards. Mark has over 10 years experience with international development and deployment of RFID and other supply chain and security technologies with experience of global roll-out projects in asset tracking with the US DOD, UK MOD, NATO and numerous commercial manufacturing and retail projects. Most recently, Mark was Regional VP, EMEA, with Savi Technology, the global leader in active RFID and Supply Chain software. Prior to joining Savi in 2001, Mark spent 14 years with Marconi and the General Electric Company in VP positions in technology sales and business development on large global systems integration projects and was the founder of the Marconi RFID business unit. He is a former Royal Navy officer, is married with 2 children.

Ingenia Technology Limited is an emerging international company in the authentication and verification of papers, plastics and metals, as used in documents, ID cards and product packaging.