“…The rapid growth of the consumer market raises a problem for protecting personal information and goods from counterfeiting, thus forming a new direction in material science and digital technology to encrypt the information. − One of the promising solutions, combining new materials and encryption technologies, is optical information encryption, since it is a quite fast, remote, safe (including for human health), and low-energy-consumptive approach. − In most cases, optically active or photoluminescent inorganic, organic, and hybrid materials − are utilized for optical encryption through a change in their color or photoluminescent (PL) signal. However, the design and fabrication of the optical security marks on arbitrary surfaces with PL decoding, allowing also a human contact, is still in its infancy.…”