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Trusted Certificates and Official Documents

Official records and documents such as government-issued certificates are often issued in paper form. This exposes them to a high counterfeiting risk. OVD Kinegram proposes advanced solutions to mitigate this risk, from emergency travel credentials to breeder documents to notary certificates. The KINEGRAM technology offers tailored protection that enhances trust in vital records and official documents.

    Image of sample paper certificate protected with a KINEGRAM

    Secure certificate protected with a KINEGRAM

    Image of a KINEGRAM Label with diffractive security effects, protecting the holder's photograph on an emergency passport.

    KINEGRAM solutions for emergency passports and temporary IDs

    Image of hand holding a notary certificate stamped with a gold color secure KINEGRAM Notary Seal

    The KINEGRAM Notary Seal protects notary documents from fraud and manipulation.

    Image of sample paper certificate protected with a KINEGRAM

    Secure certificate protected with a KINEGRAM

    Image of a KINEGRAM Label with diffractive security effects, protecting the holder's photograph on an emergency passport.

    KINEGRAM solutions for emergency passports and temporary IDs

    Image of hand holding a notary certificate stamped with a gold color secure KINEGRAM Notary Seal

    The KINEGRAM Notary Seal protects notary documents from fraud and manipulation.

    Protection for Emergency Travel Documents

    Emergency travel documents, such as emergency passports or temporary travel IDs, are often issued quickly under pressing circumstances. They are typically paper-based and thus at higher risk of forgery or manipulation. OVD Kinegram provides robust physical and digital protection options for emergency travel documents. The KINEGRAM provides advanced security, safeguarding the integrity of printed or personalized data on these documents and protecting critical elements such as the holder’s photograph.

    For further enhancing the security of emergency travel documents, a digital element in the form of a Visible Digital Seal (VDS) helps to ensure the document’s authenticity and integrity. Paired with biometrics, the VDS Bio enables fast and accurate verification of the holder’s facial or fingerprint data. The combination of physical and digital security elements adds significant protection to identity credentials in paper form.

    Secure Breeder Documents

    Breeder documents, such as birth, marriage, and death certificates, are essential identity documents. Their typically paper-based nature turns them into prime targets for counterfeiting and fraud. To address this challenge, the KINEGRAM technology offers a variety of secure and cost-efficient solutions, for example in the form of a KINEGRAM Patch applied onto the document. The unique optical security effects of a KINEGRAM are very easy to verify but extremely difficult to replicate. The certificate issuance process remains essentially unchanged, whereas the security level of the document is greatly increased.

    For institutions looking to integrate additional digital security, the VDS and VDS Bio can be seamlessly incorporated during the issuance process. These digital features enable rapid mobile verification and protect sensitive personal data, complementing the high-level physical security provided by the KINEGRAM. This dual-layer approach ensures that breeder documents are both highly secure and very easy to reliably authenticate.

    Tamper-Proof Notary Seal

    Notarized documents play a critical role in asserting legal authenticity and trustworthiness of documents, thus protecting the public from fraud. However, traditional notarization methods, such as ribbons and standard seals, are highly vulnerable to forgery and tampering. The KINEGRAM Notary Seal offers a simple yet highly secure solution for securing notarized certificates. This tamper-evident label incorporates both visible and hidden security features, making documents essentially fraud-resistant and easily verifiable by recipients. The KINEGRAM Notary Seal offers

    • Tamper-evident and fraud-resistant label materials
    • Best-in-class KINEGRAM optical security effects, including micro- and nanotext
    • Simple application and easy visual authentication

    For enhanced verification, notary certificates can also benefit from the VDS and VDS Bio digital features, enabling both physical and digital authentication.

    Advanced Protection for Official Documents and Certificates

    Physical certificates and documents remain widely used and continue to serve as essential identity credentials. Especially when issued on paper, they require appropriate security to prevent fraud and ensure trust. By combining advanced optical security features such as the KINEGRAM and optional digital enhancements such as VDS and VDS Bio, these documents achieve a higher level of protection against counterfeiting and fraud, while it becomes very easy to verify them with certainty.

      Discover advanced protection for official documents and certificates with KINEGRAM technology.

      Visible Digital Seal (VDS) and VDS Bio: Added Digital Security

      Simply Secure – The Visible Digital Seal for Digital ID Checks

      The Visible Digital Seal (VDS) is a highly secure barcode solution that offers robust protection for ID documents and the possibility to digitally verify them. While passports and ID cards are usually equipped with sophisticated security features, other identity credentials like emergency travel documents, visas, breeder documents or refugee IDs often lack equivalent safeguarding.

      With the VDS, OVD Kinegram provides a simple yet effective added means to ensure the integrity and authenticity of paper-based documents and other identity tokens. The cryptographically secured digital signature embedded in the VDS protects against data manipulation and ensures authenticity, making the VDS an ideal complementary solution for securing identity documents.

      Close-Up of a KINEGRAM security element and a Visible Digital Seal protecting a temporary passport

      KINEGRAM Solutions for Emergency Passports - Physical and Digital Security

      Image of a vehicle windshield label including a Visible Digital Seal, a highly secure 2D barcode

      Windshield label with Visible Digital Seal

      Image of a VDS special secure barcode on a sample visa

      Visa Sample protected by Visible Digital Seal

      Close-Up of a KINEGRAM security element and a Visible Digital Seal protecting a temporary passport

      KINEGRAM Solutions for Emergency Passports - Physical and Digital Security

      Image of a vehicle windshield label including a Visible Digital Seal, a highly secure 2D barcode

      Windshield label with Visible Digital Seal

      Image of a VDS special secure barcode on a sample visa

      Visa Sample protected by Visible Digital Seal

      VDS Bio – The Next Step in Digital Security

      For an additional layer of protection, the VDS Bio brings advanced biometric security into the equation, enabling the trusted verification of both personal data and biometric features of the document holder. With biometric data becoming an integral part of identity documents, their incorporation into a highly secure Visible Digital Seal enables fast and highly reliable digital document verification in accordance with ICAO standards.

      The VDS Bio is an ideal component to protect and authenticate the personal data of a document holder. Especially for rapidly issued documents which are not equipped with a chip, it offers an extra layer of protection and extremely high accuracy in face recognition. Just like a standard VDS, it can easily be generated with customized software and printed on commercially available printers.

      VDS Bio Combines The Best of All Worlds

      In combination with a KINEGRAM element, the VDS Bio offers sophisticated physical security with highly secure digital functionality, creating an ideal solution for documents:

      • Easy Issuance
        VDS Bio can be swiftly and easily generated using customized software and standard printers
      • High Security
        Cryptographic protection safeguards personalization and biometric data
      • Manual and Digital Verification
        Documents and biometric data can be verified on mobile devices, and manually due to the unique optical security effects of the KINEGRAM

      Trusted and ICAO-Compliant Solution

      Both the VDS Bio and the standard VDS are built to comply with ICAO Doc 9303 standards, ensuring highest security, reliability and global interoperability. They are compatible with ICAO PKD participants, Master List & Health Master List standards; and can simply be generated and integrated into any existing document issuance process.

      Applications of VDS and VDS Bio

      The versatility of the VDS and VDS Bio makes them suitable for a wide range of document types:

      • Travel and ID Documents
        Visas, Emergency Travel IDs, Temporary Passports, Refugee IDs
      • Breeder Documents
        Birth Certificates, Marriage Certificates
      • Healthcare Documents
        Vaccination Certificates, Health Cards
      • Access Control
        Airport IDs, Visitor Badges, Access Cards

      Easy Digital Security for Secure Physical Documents

      VDS and VDS Bio warrant document integrity and are essential tools in the strive to create secure documents. Unlike more complex solutions such as RFID chips, a VDS – or any other secure QR code – can be easily printed on any document, for example social insurance cards, travel documents, vaccination certificates or visas. Within seconds and using a standard printer of your choice, the document is swiftly protected by a secure code which can easily and conveniently be verified with any conventional smartphone or standard document reader, anywhere in the world.

      Learn more about the VDS and VDS Bio. Contact us now to try our VDS Demonstrator!