Abstract: A method that embeds a message into a document containing a number of glyphs and extracts said message from a degraded version of said document. Each symbol of the message is represented as a geometrical relationship of two discrete sets of pixels, in which the pixels in each set are adjacent. The pixels associated with the glyphs selected from the document are combined with the discrete sets of pixels to produce modified glyphs that contain the embedded message.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention disclose a system and a method for transforming a biometric of a user to a binary feature vector suitable for user authentication, comprising steps of: partitioning the biometric into a set of regions, wherein each region is a contiguous region confining a part of the biometric; determining, for each region, biometric parameters; applying, to each region, binary logical conditions to produce at least one bit of the binary feature vector, wherein the applying is performed by a processer; and outputting the binary feature vector.