On Sunday, August 1, 2021, 04:37:58 PM PDT, Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi> wrote:
Many years ago I posted an idea of mine about cryptographic physical watermarking of things, such as paper money, or maybe missiles. Whatnot.
The idea was that you'd do some chaotic physical process in order to lay down a physical watermark, then image it, and finally digitally sign what was seen via asymmmetric cryptography. I imagined you'd then print the signature "on the bill" as a 2D barcode, to be verified. But I never worked out how you would deal with the inevitable "broken bill". I thought it'd take some kind of high end error correcting code.
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Any problems with my idea? I'd like to hear, especially since it has been a couple of decades coming. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - decoy@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2
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