{"id":23610,"date":"2015-02-10T10:54:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T10:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/?p=23610"},"modified":"2024-04-03T13:15:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:45:24","slug":"visual-cryptography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/visual-cryptography\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual cryptography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/visual-cryptography.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24530\" alt=\"visual-cryptography\" src=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/visual-cryptography.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\">Visual cryptography (VC) was introduced by Moni Naor and Adi Shamir at EUROCRYPT 1994.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\">Visual cryptography is a cryptographic technique which allows visual information (pictures, text, etc.) to be encrypted in such a way that decryption becomes a mechanical operation that may or may not require a computer.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\">It is used to encrypt written material (printed text, handwritten notes, pictures, etc) in a perfectly secure way.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\">OR- Visual Cryptography<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\">Divide image into two parts<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\">Separately, they are random noise<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\">Combination reveals an image<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\"><\/div>\n<div><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/visual-cryptography-01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24531 aligncenter\" alt=\"visual-cryptography 01\" src=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/visual-cryptography-01-300x77.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/visual-cryptography-01-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/visual-cryptography-01-1024x264.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/visual-cryptography-01.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\">\u00a0k out of n sharing problem<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\">k out of n sharing problem<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\">For a set P of n participants, \u00a0a secret image S is encoded into n shadow images called shares (shadows), where each participant in P receives one share.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\">The original image is visible if any k or more of them are stacked together, but totally invisible if fewer than k transparencies are stacked together.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\">k out of n example (k=3,n=4)<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\">General k out of k Scheme<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\">In k out of k, the image is visible only if all the shares are stacked together.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\">If any share in k is lost, and remaining shares are stacked together, it will not form the image.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\">Thus, in k out of k, all the shares are important<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\">\u00a0 \u00a0 to construct the image.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\">\u00a02 out of 2 Scheme (2 subpixels)<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\"><\/div>\n<div><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/visual-cryptography-02.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24529 aligncenter\" alt=\"visual-cryptography 02\" src=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/visual-cryptography-02-300x296.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/visual-cryptography-02-300x296.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/visual-cryptography-02-1024x1011.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/visual-cryptography-02-55x55.png 55w, https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/visual-cryptography-02.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\">X-OR Visual Cryptography<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv1660838797yui_3_16_0_1_1422510783365_5055\">It is a type of cryptography technique in which we encode image in such a way that we get original image after decoding.It is not possible in normal cryptography technique.Decoding can be done by human visual system or directly with the help of computer<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/Security\">Click here for government certification in 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