Acta Informatica Pragensia 2015, 4(3), 302-309 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aip.763017

Verifiable Distribution of Material Goods Based on Cryptology

Radomír Palovský
Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics, University of Economics, Prague, nám. W. Churchilla 4, 130 67 Praha 3, Czech Republic

Counterfeiting of material goods is a general problem. In this paper an architecture for verifiable distribution of material goods is presented. This distribution is based on printing such a QR code on goods, which would contain digitally signed serial number of the product, and validity of this digital signature could be verifiable by a customer. Extension consisting of adding digital signatures to revenue stamps used for state-controlled goods is also presented. Discussion on possibilities in making copies leads to conclusion that cryptographic security needs to be completed by technical difficulties of copying.

Keywords: Digital signature, Verifiable distribution, Material goods, QR code, Revenue stamp

Received: September 29, 2015; Revised: December 23, 2015; Accepted: December 26, 2015; Published: December 31, 2015  Show citation

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Palovský, R. (2015). Verifiable Distribution of Material Goods Based on Cryptology. Acta Informatica Pragensia, 4(3), 302-309. doi: 10.18267/j.aip.76
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