Bit Slicng based Visual Cryptography On Gray Scale ImageÂ

Abstract

Data transmission through online is become mandatory in recent ages. No one can avoid data transmission over internet. But sensitivity of the data to be considered while transmits over internet. Internet is public medium where everyone has equal right to do their activities. Like in general public, internet also having malicious users and their main activity is deployment of attack. These attacks are of many types such as hacking, tampering and eavesdropping etc. Efficient data hiding techniques are required to with stand these attacks or to escape from these attacks. Visual Cryptography is one of such techniques to hide multimedia data in other multimedia data such as images, audio files or video files. In the proposed system secret image is partitioned or divided into shares based on the bits. These shares are then covered with given cover images then these covered shares are distributed to ‘n’ participants. To recover the secret all those participants are required. The proposed approach followed a novel method of bit slicing on gray scale images. So at the time of recover secret image cant’ be visible with same intensity or resolution as that of original image. For this purpose four secret keys are used. Simulation results shows that when compared to existing schemes , proposed approach can hide the image under cover images in efficient way as well as recovering of secret also lightweight and resilience to attacks.