A system for the identification of a person or an object with an information carrier having at least one means for identification not perceptible with a human sense organ, the identification means containing identification information characteristic of a certain person or object, the system comprising a device for inscripting the identification means on the information carrier and a device for reading and evaluating the identification means, the improvement comprising that the information carrier carries a recording containing the identification information, the recording being detectable only in ultraviolet light of a predetermined range of wavelengths, the identification information is contained in a restorable hologram produced by means of ultraviolet light, that the device for inscription includes means for generating the recording, and the device for reading and evaluating includes means for reading the recording by means of ultraviolet light and is concealed from the field of vision of the person to be identified or in charge of an object to be identified.