Secure Information Embedding and Extraction in Forensic 3D Fingerprinting

arXiv:2403.04918v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The prevalence of 3D printing poses a significant risk to public safety, as any individual with internet access and a commodity printer is able to produce untraceable firearms, keys, counterfeit products, etc. To aid government authorities in combating these new security threats, several approaches have been taken to tag 3D-prints with identifying information. Known as fingerprints, this information is written into the object using various bit embedding techniques; examples include varying the height of the …

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