A COMPARATIVELY STUDY ON VISUAL CRYPTOGRAPHY

Prashant B Swadas, Samip Patel, Dhruti Darji

Abstract: The effective and secure protections of sensitive information are primary concerns in commercial, medical and military systems. To address the reliability problems for secret images, a visual cryptography scheme is a good alternative to remedy the vulnerabilities. Visual cryptography is a very secure and unique way to protect secrets. Visual cryptography is an encryption technique which is used to hide information which is present in an image. Unliketraditional cryptographic schemes, it uses human eyes to recover the secret without any complex decryption algorithms and the facilitate of computers. It is a secret sharing scheme which uses images distributed as shares such that, when the shares are superimposed, a hidden secret image is revealed.In this paper we represent various cryptography technique and research work done in this field.

Keywords: Secret image sharing, cryptography, visual quality of image, pixel expansion

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0301029