Computer software and hardware for encrypting letters and numbers to uniquely identify and track products or packages; computer software for use in the encryption and decryption of digital files, including audio, video, text, binary, still images, graphics and multimedia files; computer hardware and computer software for retail inventory management, sold as a unit; computer software and hardware for serialization, track-and-trace and authentication of products and packages; computer software and hardware for tracking medication from the point-of-sale to the consumer in order to detect and localize the source of drug diversion; computer software and hardware providing magnified imaging for recording and digitizing the surface composition of a product or unit of packaging material and generation of digitized data to track-and-trace the product or package and related enterprise software in the nature of a database and a search engine for database content relating to track and trace data in respect of products and packaging