A cheating prevention scheme for binary visual cryptography with homogeneous secret images

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2356-2366

  Tsai, Du Shiau ^a,b   Chen, Tzung Her ^c   Horng, Gwoboa ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HSIUPING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cheating; Cheating prevention; Genetic algorithm; Visual cryptography

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTICATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SECURITY OF DATA;

CHEATING PREVENTION; STEGANOGRAPHY; VISUAL CRYPTOGRAPHY;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 34147183148     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2007.01.013     Document Type: Article

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