Survey and Analysis of Visual Secret Sharing Techniques
L. Jani Anbarasi, G. S. Anandha Mala · International Review on Computers and Software (IRECOS) · 2014
Security is an important issue in information technology, which is ruling the internet world today. The aim of this paper is to present an overview of the emerging techniques for secret Sharing. A (t, n) secret sharing scheme refers to a method of distributing a secret among a group of n participants, each of whom is allocated with a meaningless share of the secret. When t or more participants pool their shares together the secret can be reconstructed, but less than that cannot. Secret sharing is widely used due to the remarkable growth in security awareness by individuals, groups, agencies etc. This paper provides a state-of-the-art review and analysis of the different existing methods of secret sharing, along with some common standard algorithms and guidelines drawn from the literature, and concludes with an analysis of the various functionalities of the different techniques.