High-level authentication in everyone`s hands

High-level authentication tools in public hands will ensure prevention of globally growing white-collar crime that is costing the public billions each year. Using existing everyday devices like the "ordinary" cellular phone to positively identify a document, person or to verify a transaction will provide weapons against fraudsters.

Small applications downloaded to cellphones will provide first level, offline decryption and authentication whilst GSM network using GPRS will provide a virtual network at point of request for further authentication if necessary.

Dexdata`s research and development have developed a revolutionary concept that is set to be this century`s paradigm in global security. It allows virtually all sectors of the global community to authenticate the identity of the creator as well as the contents of documents, identity cards, bank cards, secure labels, as well as any form of document without the need for specialised equipment or communication networks. The concept and technologies are also set to prevent the illicit cloning of products.

Based on the enormous global growth of the cellular phone market as well as the increasing sophistication of both these devices as well as the communication network that supports them, Dexdata consider these devices as excellent candidates to become the authentication device of the future.

Paper documentation suffers from the most prevalent fraudulent onslaughts of any form of information. Dex has introduced a revolutionary new solution that offers the world of information security, the ability to globally authenticate the entire contents of documents, as well as other data, such as date stamps, institution details and digital or electronic signatures, with an automated facsimile service. No longer will the world have to suffer from the lack of trust of the paper document or the damages caused by fraudulent creation or alteration.

One of the products that were created, using fax based authentication technology, is when a certificate, diploma or degree is faxed to an authentication server. The entire document contents as well as originator code, organisation code, date and time stamps and other ancillary data, is decoded, verified and faxed back to the original enquirer.

Dex also introduces the world of secured, positively identified booking and ticketing. Tickets and bookings can be conveniently carried out at any location by means of a biometrically identified cellular call, negating the opportunities for fraudulent activities and dramatically enhancing the security and convenience of check-in in diverse environments.

The biometrics template that is acquired during the cellular booking call is communicated to the booking agent and becomes a part of the booking transaction. This biometrics template can also be used in the check-in and boarding processes at airports.

When anyone requires carrying out a cellular phone booking he/she merely enters the code of the venue and the date and time, and then places his finger on the finger biometrics scanner that is attached to or integrated in a cellular phone. The biometrics is matched with those that were enrolled and the person is authenticated.

For a presentation and more information on these technologies visit the Dex stand at Futurex, in the Ballroom at the Sandton Convention Centre between 18 and 21 May 2004. For more info on the show, visit www.futurex.co.za or visit the Dex Web site at www.dex.co.za.