Security clampdown on the home PC banknote forgers

Matthew Byng-Maddick cryptography at lists.colondot.net
Wed Jun 9 06:54:04 EDT 2004


On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 05:15:25PM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
> >From the original article:
>   "The software relies on features built into leading 
>   currencies. Latest banknotes contain a pattern of 
>   five tiny circles. On the £20 note, they're disguised 
>   as a musical notation, on the euro they appear in a 
[...]

Not just those, but see a friend's paper on this, presented to the
Information Hiding Workshop 2004:
  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/projects/currency/

MBM

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