Certificates - Trustcopy solution

Trustcopy solution for the certificate issuing institutions starts with a package of anti-forgery measures and covert information. The package includes the use of the following:

Certificates illustration - How it all works? 

Anti-forgery

Today, the best forgeries of certificates in its entirety are still produced by redrawing the original certificates, often conducted by hand by skilled artwork specialists. The resulting work is often impossible to authenticate without careful study by experienced personnel and the use of specialized equipment.

However, because Trustcopy's watermarks are embedded with covert and encrypted authenticity information, which are not revealed to the naked eye, the technique of redrawing the certificates so preferred by forgers will not reproduce the embedded covert information.

So a seemingly visually authentic certificate forged by redrawing can be easily authenticated when by establishing presence of the authenticity information in the watermark.

This forces the forgeries to be made using scanning where a new photo film or scanning is used to capture the original watermark. However there is always degradation of image quality using this technique. And this with micro printing adds to another security feature, reproduced Trustcopy watermarks are always of different, making them copy evident.

Modifications of details on genuine and forged documents
Trustcopy incorporates encrypted dynamic watermarks that are digitally printed with the details of the certificate, like name of the recipient, date of certificate issue and accreditation details into each certificate. As the perpetrators can only alter the visible details, it is easy for front-line inspections to be conducted on the certificates by comparing the visible details against those found in the encrypted covert watermarks.

Unauthorised creation of certificates using genuine stationary
A Trustcopy protected certificate incorporates encrypted dynamic watermarks that are digitally printed with the details of the certificate, like name of the recipient, date of certificate issue and accreditation details into each certificate.

Only certificates printed using Trustcopy's secure printing module can have such watermarks, so this adds an extra level of security to prevent unauthorised use or abuse of genuine stationary.

Trustcopy provides both software and hardware printing modules for its watermarks, and has options to secure printing by biometric access such as fingerprint matching.