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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div><div dir="ltr">Dear Cryptography Mailing List Members,<div><br></div><div>In 2012, when I was applying to US & UK universities for my postgraduate study, I came to know that you need to send your original transcripts for the verification purpose as part of your application. Since it can get very expensive for a student if he/she has to issue hard copies of transcripts every time he/she makes an application, I designed a methodology to verify student's transcripts for free (or at least cost-effectively) using QR Codes. This technique implements combination of cryptography and steganography. </div><div>Although since 2013, many institutes and universities have adopted my software methodology (and some un-ethical researchers have also copied my methodology and publishing the same content in other papers). </div><div><br></div><div>The papers are freely available from ResearchGate:</div><div>1) <a href="http://www.researchgate.net/publication/259643873_Confidential_Encrypted_Data_Hiding_and_Retrieval_Using_QR_Authentication_System" target="_blank" style="font-size:12pt;">http://www.researchgate.net/publication/259643873_Confidential_Encrypted_Data_Hiding_and_Retrieval_Using_QR_Authentication_System</a> </div><div>2) <a href="http://www.researchgate.net/publication/259643874_New_Generation_of_Digital_Academic-Transcripts_using_encrypted_QR_CodeTM" target="_blank" style="font-size:12pt;">http://www.researchgate.net/publication/259643874_New_Generation_of_Digital_Academic-Transcripts_using_encrypted_QR_CodeTM</a> </div><div><br></div><div>This being said, I was wondering if you could provide an informal feedback on the proposed methodology?? Do you think the combination of cryptographic and steganographic techniques mentioned in the paper is effective??</div><div>Do you think this idea could be widely adopted?? What are the future prospects of this methodology??<br><br>With Regards,</div><div><br><font style="" color="#2672EC" face="Times New Roman">Somdip Dey</font><div><font style="" color="#2672EC" face="Times New Roman"><br><font style="" color="#8C0095"><a href="http://www.somdipdey.com" target="_blank">http://www.somdipdey.com <br></a></font><br></font></div></div> </div></div><style><!--
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