Digimarc ID secure features

Improving security while easing validation

As the role of identification becomes ever more important, thetask of authenticating the ID cards and drivers licences has movedfrom the realm of law enforcement to more general applications,like boarding a plane or cashing a cheque.

It is virtually impossible for one individual?let alonemillions?to recognise every permutation of the each countries manydifferent ID documents. Therefore, never has the adoption ofautomated tools been so important to authentication identificationacross borders and in the country of issue. The IDMarc solution isdesigned to address just this by providing both the proven digitalwatermark technology to verify the authenticity of the ID card ordocument and software that makes it simple for anyone wishing tovalidate the card.

Prevalent machine-readable authentication

IDMarc has been designed to enable fast and reliablecross-jurisdictional and border authentication. Its growingprevalence with use in driver licence application makes it anatural choice for traffic police and drivers licence validation,as well as having national ID application potential.

In fact, IDMarc is incorporated into more than 33% of the U.S.driver licences produced today, linking together personal data andsecurity features to ensure credential integrity, defending againstphoto swapping and data alteration and ensuring that driverlicences can be validated by traffic police.

Digital watermarks, the heart of IDMarc

The IDMarc solution is based on a ?digital watermark,? animperceptible data-carrying message embedded in digital content.Digimarc has vast experience embedding these messages by makingsubtle changes to the data of the original digital content. Infact, Digimarc leads the market in intellectual property fordigital watermarking.

Interlocking features without using private information

Unlike most machine-readable document security features, IDMarccan carry unique data for authentication purposes without using thecardholder?s personal data, eliminating the risk of compromisingcardholder privacy.

Obvious to machines, not counterfeiters

Since IDMarc is imperceptible to the human eye, and it requiressoftware carrying a unique key to be read, document forgers willtypically miss the feature, meaning that forged document will notcarry IDMarc. In these cases, the absence of IDMarc becomes groundfor further investigation.

Flexibility to meet personal identification needs

Every issuance environment is different. From over-thecounter tocentral issue, IDMarc security features are designed to be appliedduring any existing driver licence or national ID cardpersonalisation process. Best of all, the solution is easilyadopted and integrated.

For national ID card, social and welfare card, voters?registration and drivers licence issuers who are tasked with addingsecurity features, card holder information, national identity and anumber of other data fields, space on the card, itself, is at apremium but IDMarc solves this quandary, as well.

Unlike other data carrying security features like magneticstripes and barcodes, IDMarc does not require a specific carddesign to be effective. Instead of taking more space, it frees-upvaluable areas of the card for additional security andpersonalisation features for the issuer and theindividual.