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After finishing his mathematical studies at the university of Jena in 1967, Dietrich Heinicke joined Cellatron, a leading German export company in the development of IT-products for the computer industry. He was initially engaged in the development of basic software tools. Later he was promoted to the marketing department where he realized a lot of projects in new strategic product developments. In 1990 he joined the sales force of Kontron. As a head of the Berlin department he was responsible for launching industry PCs and Unix systems in the East German market.
Later, in 1996 he became a member of the CADAC group, a leading value added reseller for sophisticated security solutions, mainly based on products from Sun Microsystems where he had an opportunity to use his IT-experiences. He assumed a strategic position for the development of CADAC strategic software products and was significantly involved in three patent applications. In addition to his engagement with CADAC he was in 1999 one of the founders of SecWare Technologies AG, an innovative company in the IT-security area, where he had a significant role in the development of a special security algorithm for data encryption. In 2001 he was elected to the supervisory board of SecWare Technologies AG. The latest project, where he has a leading role, was the development of "ProIdent", a web-based system to prevent counterfeiting products. With the financial support of the German Ministry of economics and with a strong assistance by CADAC "ProIdent" is now ready for market.
Dietrich Heinicke is driven by the conviction that there is an enormous opportunity to set a new mark stone for product authentication and track and trace functionalities especially in the pharmaceutical industry with "ProIdent".
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ProIdent - Open System for combating counterfeit drugs
Dietrich Heinicke, CADAC GmbH
ProIdent is a cryptographically protected, web-based method of protecting products from counterfeit. With the ProIdent technique we offer a technology which provides the highest level of protection of integrity and authenticity of drugs, including the whole supply chain up to the dispenser end user. The ProIdent technique also makes it possible to track and trace products up to the producer.
For this purpose each unit of product (cases, pallets, packages and blisters) is identified by a unique, cryptographically encoded "Digital Seal". Each "Digital Seal" corresponds to exactly one data record in a database of an attribute server operated by the producer.
The "Digital Seal" is assigned to a product unit and in case of the verification of a product it serves for finding the corresponding data record in the according attribute server. The corresponding data record is located accordingly in the attribute server. The respective data record contains all product-specific, product-characterizing and other relevant information in digital form. There is a difference between "Digital Seal" for a manual product check and the "Digital Seal" used for automatic product check. The "Digital seal" for the manual check comprises, in addition to the header, a data record ID and also cryptographic information. The "Digital Seal" for the automatic product check comprises also the server address of the attribute server.
In the manual product check by the end user the main focus is the check of product authenticity. In the automatic product check via the checking instances of the supply chain the main focus is tracing back the path of the product up to the producer.
In order to simplify the mechanism of authentification in the automatic product check we propose a central "intermediate server", which realizes the authentification to the attribute servers.
Basically the track of each product unit is recorded in a pedigree which can be made available to instances to any further extent.
The ProIdent technology is a secure investment. The "Digital Seal" is contained in a RFID-tag, microchip, datamatrix code or in a barcode, respectively attached to the product unit as alphanumeric code (for end users). Due to the open concept future standards can be included in the ProIdent technology without difficulty. As a result of the distributed memory architecture and the prospect to grow attaching thereto, there is no limitation for the volume of data to be administrated.
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