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Re: Security clampdown on the home PC banknote forgers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Byng-Maddick)
Wed Jun 9 09:07:55 2004

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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 11:54:04 +0100
From: Matthew Byng-Maddick <cryptography@lists.colondot.net>
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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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