[Cryptography-dev] Visual Cryptography[Proposal]

[Shivraj Singh]

Greetings, everyone.

My name is Shivraj Singh. I have been working on Visual Cryptography as a
part of a project that I have undertaken in Uni.

It's a relatively new field of cryptography with a lot of potential for
application. A lot of research is going on in this field and quite a lot of
research papers have been published on this as well, but not a lot has been
done from an application point of view. This method of encryption had been
introduced by Shamir, one of the founders of RSA, himself. Here's the wiki
link to it : wiki . <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_cryptography>

One of the primary applications of Visual Cryptography is Secret Sharing
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing>. The
implementation of it requires knowledge about (linear) algebra to
understand the working and opencv and python for the implementation.

I am new to the open source environment in terms of contribution so I
apologise in case this isn't the standard procedure. Do let me know what
you think about this project. Also, in case there is some other procedure
required for me to present this idea to the community, please let me know.
I have written a small python program to implement a (2,4)2VCS scheme : a
secret is hared between 4 participants where each is given one share. If
any two participants combine their share, they can obtain the secret image.

Hoping to hear from you soon.

Thank you.
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